Educational Achievement of Immigrant Adolescents in Spain: Do Gender and Region of Origin Matter?

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1560-1576

  Vaquera, Elizabeth ^a   Kao, Grace ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84866179202     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01791.x     Document Type: Article

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