Ethnic Environment During Childhood and the Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children in Sweden
Ethnic Environment During Childhood and the Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children in Sweden
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瑞典移民儿童童年时期的民族环境与教育程度
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2010
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Ryszard Szulkin
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Magnus Bygren;Ryszard Szulkin
我们询问种族居住隔离是否会影响瑞典移民子女未来的教育生涯。我们使用的数据集包括1995年完成义务教育的儿童队列(n=6,560)。我们从1990年开始追踪这些儿童，以衡量他们在童年后期的社区特征，并在2003年对这些儿童进行前瞻性追踪，以衡量到目前为止的受教育年限。最大的移民群体来自芬兰、土耳其、前南斯拉夫、伊朗和智利。我们的实证分析表明，在教育资源有限的同族青年聚居的社区长大的移民儿童，义务教育平均成绩相对较低，平均而言，他们的教育水平不如在其他地方长大的移民儿童。对于生活在教育上取得成功的年轻同族人所在社区的少数移民儿童来说，我们发现在种族飞地长大有积极的影响。同样在这种情况下，民族环境对未来教育成就的影响是通过义务学校的学习成绩来调节的。
We ask whether ethnic residential segregation influences the future educational careers of children of immigrants in Sweden. We use a dataset comprising a cohort of children who finished compulsory school in 1995 (n = 6,560). We follow these children retrospectively to 1990 to measure neighborhood characteristics during late childhood, and prospectively through 2003 to measure the number of years of education attained thus far. The largest immigrant groups came from Finland, Turkey, former Yugoslavia, Iran and Chile. Our empirical analysis reveals that immigrant children who grow up in neighborhoods with many young coethnics who have limited educational resources, obtain relatively low average grades from compulsory school, and on average, do not attain the same levels of education as do immigrant children who grow up elsewhere. For a minority of immigrant children who lived in neighborhoods with educationally successful young coethnics, we find a positive effect of growing up in an ethnic enclave. Also in this case, the effect of the ethnic environment on future educational attainment is mediated by school results in compulsory school.