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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2012 Sep;83(5):1543–1559. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01790.x

Table 4. Regressing Test Scores on Child Characteristics.

Word Identification Comprehension Applied Problems Calculation
Nativity of Child and Parent
US-born 0.12 0.24** 0.21** 0.05
One U.S. parent −0.07 −0.11 −0.09 −0.13
Origin (ref: origin in Africa/Asia/Europe):
Latino origin - Mexico −0.31** −0.33** −0.30** −0.26**
Latino origin - other −0.14* −0.18* −0.16* −0.19**
R-square 0.022 0.018 0.016 0.030

N=2,147. Regressions are run on 5 imputed datasets and are corrected for design effects.

All tests are age-adjusted.

**

p<.01,

*

p<.05.