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

Word Identification Comprehension Applied Problems Calculatation
M.1 M.2 M.1 M.2 M.1 M.2 M.1 M.2
Child Characteristics
US-born n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.
One U.S. parent n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.
Latino origin - Mexico n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.
Latino origin - other n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.
Post-migration parental attributes
Education in U.S. 0.03 * 0.02 0.04 ** 0.03 * 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01
Postmigration ISEI 0.004 * 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.003 * 0.00
Postmigration work 0.39 ** 0.39 ** 0.48 ** 0.48 ** 0.52 ** 0.52 ** 0.06 0.06
# years in U.S. 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.02 ** 0.02 ** 0.00 0.00
Pre-migration parental attributes
Education at arrival 0.04 ** 0.03 ** 0.04 ** 0.03 ** 0.03 ** 0.03 * 0.02 ** 0.02 *
Premigration ISEI 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Premigration work 0.03 0.01 0.08 0.06 0.21 ** 0.19 ** 0.06 0.05
English at arrival 0.24 ** 0.20 ** 0.26 ** 0.22 ** 0.12 0.08 0.05 0.02
Cognitive HOME 0.01 ** 0.01 ** 0.01 ** 0.01 **
R-square 0.376 0.391 0.326 0.343 0.307 0.324 0.537 0.544

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.