Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/209628 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Life Course Centre Working Paper Series No. 2019-01
Publisher: 
The University of Queensland, Institute for Social Science Research, Brisbane
Abstract: 
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational activities from school entry; and, that the ethnicity gap in the time allocated to educational activities increases over time. By specifying an augmented value-added model and invoking a quantile decomposition method, we find that the academic advantage of children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable initial cognitive abilities and not to socio-demographics or parenting styles. Furthermore, our results show substantial heterogeneity in the contributions of initial cognitive abilities and time allocations by test subjects, test ages and points of the test score distribution.
Subjects: 
Migration
Test Score Gap
Time Use Diary
Quantile Regression
Second-generation Immigrants
Australia
JEL: 
C21
I20
J13
J15
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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