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Falling Through the Cracks? Grade Retention and School Dropout among Children of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants
- Source :
- American Economic Review. 105:598-603
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- American Economic Association, 2015.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
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Actuarial science
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Unauthorized Immigrants
Immigration
Population
Grade retention
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School dropout
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Falling (accident)
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Family planning
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Economics
medicine
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medicine.symptom
Enforcement
education
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Demography
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00028282
- Volume :
- 105
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Economic Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c25ffc8a385739825257ed13d859d501