Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20489 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1226
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit analysis. Pre-school enrollment is found to vary systematically with parental characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother?s labor supply and country of origin. Among the foreign-born, differences in preschool enrollment are analyzed by country of origin. Among the U.S.-born children of immigrants pre-school enrollment is greatest among those with both parents foreign born.
Subjects: 
immigrants
children
school enrollment
pre-school
JEL: 
J13
J15
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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