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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 5. Regression Analysis of the Relationship Between Test Scores and (Separately) Pre- and Post-migration Characteristics.

Word Identification Comprehension Applied Problems Calculatation
(Panel A) M.1 M.2 M.1 M.2 M.1 M.2 M.1 M.2
Child Characteristics
US-born 0.07 0.01 0.16 * -0.03 0.17 * 0.05 0.04 -0.01
One U.S. parent -0.13 -0.14 -0.13 -0.15 -0.17 -0.18 -0.16 -0.16
Latino origin - Mexico -0.23 * -0.25 * -0.26 * -0.32 * -0.26 * -0.30 * -0.19 * -0.20 *
Latino origin - other -0.05 -0.06 -0.11 -0.15 -0.11 -0.14 -0.12 -0.13 *
Post-miqration parental attributes
SES
Education in U.S. 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Post-migration ISEI 0.01 ** 0.01 ** 0.01 ** 0.01 |**| 0.01 ** 0.01 * 0.01 ** 0.01 **
Post-migration work 0.43 ** 0.41 ** 0.53 ** 0.50 |**| 0.57 ** 0.52 ** 0.07 0.06
# years in U.S. 0.01 0.01 * 0.02 ** 0.00
R-square 0.342 0.343 0.287 0.291 0.272 0.279 0.526 0.526
(Panel B) M.3 M.4 M.3 M.4 M.3 M.4 M.3 M.4
Child Characteristics
US-born 0.18 |** 0.15 * 0.27 ** 0.25 ** 0.29 ** 0.25 ** 0.09 0.08
One U.S. parent 0.00 -0.05 0.00 -0.03 -0.05 -0.01 -0.06 -0.08
Mexico -0.16 -0.09 -0.17 -0.13 -0.20 -0.13 -0.16 -0.14
Other Latin Am -0.05 0.00 -0.07 -0.04 -0.11 -0.06 -0.12 * -0.11
Pre-migration parental attributes
SES
Education at arrival 0.03 ** 0.03 ** 0.03 ** 0.02 * 0.02 ** 0.02 * 0.02 * 0.02 *
Pre-migration ISEI 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.004 ** 0.004**
Pre-migration work 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.07 0.18 * 0.19 ** 0.05 0.05
English at arrival 0.32 ** 0.36 ** 0.19 * 0.09
R-square 0.337 0.353 0.269 0.289 0.269 0.275 0.529 0.531

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

All test scores are age-adjusted.

**

p<.01,

*

p<.05.