Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185184 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11724
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills gaps for children of immigrants between kindergarten and 5th grade. We find some evidence that children of immigrants begin school with lower math scores than children of natives, but this gap disappears in later elementary school. For noncognitive skills, children of immigrants and children of natives score similarly in early elementary school, but a positive gap opens up in 3rd grade. We find that the growth in noncognitive skills is driven by disadvantaged (e.g., low-SES) immigrant students. We discuss potential explanations for the observed patterns of skill development as well as the implications of our results for the labor market prospects of children of immigrants.
Subjects: 
children of immigrants
cognitive and noncognitive skills
test score gap
JEL: 
I21
J13
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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