The academic trajectories of immigrant youths: Analysis within and across cohorts

Demography

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 759-783

  Glick, Jennifer E ^a   White, Michael J ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT EFFECT; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2142827033     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1515207     Document Type: Article

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