蝌蚪网 Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Falling through the Cracks? Grade Retention and School Dropout among Children of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants
蝌蚪网 Review
vol. 105,
no. 5, May 2015
(pp. 598–603)
Abstract
We evaluate how intensified interior immigration enforcement impacts the likelihood that children of unauthorized immigrants will repeat a grade or drop out of school. Using a weighted index of the intensity of interior immigration enforcement at the MSA level, we find that increased enforcement has the largest impact on younger children ages 6 to 13. The estimates, which account for the non-random residential location of children and their families, reveal that increased enforcement raises young children's probability of repeating a grade by 6 percent and their likelihood of dropping out of school by 25.2 percent.Citation
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, and Mary J. Lopez. 2015. "Falling through the Cracks? Grade Retention and School Dropout among Children of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants." 蝌蚪网 Review 105 (5): 598–603. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151113Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I24 Education and Inequality
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics