Table 2.

Asian Generational differences in attitudes and behavior relative to 3rd-plus generation whites


	Attitude toward School¹				Maximum effort at schoolwork²				Rarely skips school²
	(1)		(2)		(1)		(2)		(1)		(2)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Generation 1	1.45	0.29 ^***	1.31	0.33 ^***	0.72	0.21 ^***	0.89	0.24 ^***	0.12	0.21	0.22	0.23
Generation 2	0.74	0.60	0.46	0.53	0.53	0.20 ^**	0.60	0.22 ^**	−0.14	0.32	−0.33	0.34
Generation 3	0.38	0.45	0.08	0.51	−0.14	0.15	−0.17	0.17	−0.13	0.33	−0.50	0.37
Age			−0.23	0.05 ^***			−0.23	0.02 ^***			−0.43	0.03 ^***
Female			0.73	0.16 ^***			0.35	0.07 ^***			0.32	0.07 ^***
Single-parent family			−1.45	0.15 ^***			−0.20	0.07 ^**			−0.66	0.09 ^***
Step-parent family			−0.68	0.20 ^***			−0.16	0.09 ⁺			−0.32	0.11 ^**
Family income			−0.09	0.05 ⁺			−0.05	0.03 ^*			0.03	0.04
Income imputed			−0.32	0.24			−0.16	0.12			−0.35	0.11 ^**
Avg parental education			0.16	0.04 ^***			0.01	0.02			0.10	0.02 ^***
Asian Ethnicity B			0.51	0.65			−0.05	0.29			0.54	0.27 ^*
Constant	30.50	0.12 ^***	33.00	1.16 ^***	−0.60	0.06 ^***	3.28	0.52 ^***	1.44	0.08 ^***	6.87	0.78 ^***
N	10058		10058		7879		7879		10058		10058
R2/Pseudo R2	0.00		0.03		0.00		0.04		0.00		0.12
Asian Generational Differences:	^a		^a		^a, ^c		^a, ^c				^a, ^b

OLS coefficients

Logistic regression coefficients

First and third generations different at the .05 level

First and second generations different at the .05 level

Second and third generations different at the .05 level

Statistical Significance:

⁺

p<0.1

p< .05

^**

p< .01

^***

p<.001