Table 4.

Asian generational differences in educational outcomes, relative to 3rd-plus generation whites


Indepdendent Variables:	High School Graduation²						College Prep Coursework¹
	(1)		(2)		(3)		(1)		(2)		(3)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Generation 1	0.75	0.36 ^*	1.14	0.44 ^**	0.96	0.44 ^*	0.56	0.15 ^***	0.44	0.15 ^**	0.36	0.15 ^*
Generation 2	0.62	0.34 ⁺	0.70	0.42 ⁺	0.67	0.44	0.43	0.14 ^**	0.28	0.12 ^*	0.27	0.12 ^*
Generation 3	0.73	0.32 ^*	0.64	0.36 ⁺	0.78	0.35 ^*	0.09	0.37	−0.06	0.36	−0.03	0.34
Age			0.09	0.03 ^***	0.17	0.03 ^***			0.01	0.02	0.05	0.02 ^**
Female			0.41	0.08 ^***	0.31	0.08 ^***			0.32	0.05 ^***	0.27	0.04 ^***
Single-parent family			−0.71	0.13 ^***	−0.55	0.13 ^***			−0.36	0.06 ^***	−0.26	0.06 ^***
Step-parent family			−0.38	0.12 ^**	−0.33	0.11 ^**			−0.20	0.07 ^**	−0.17	0.07 ^**
Family income			0.08	0.05 ⁺	0.09	0.05 ⁺			0.07	0.03 ^*	0.07	0.03 ^*
Parent Interview Missing			−0.14	0.15	−0.05	0.15			0.00	0.07	0.05	0.07
Avg parental education			0.26	0.03 ^***	0.24	0.03 ^***			0.17	0.01 ^***	0.16	0.01 ^***
Asian Ethnicity B			−0.38	0.54	−0.50	0.54			0.36	0.22 ⁺	0.31	0.22
Attitudes Scale					0.08	0.01 ^***					0.04	0.00 ^***
Rarely skips school					0.85	0.09 ^***					0.48	0.06 ^***
Constant	1.56	0.08 ^***	−3.97	0.68 ^***	−8.00	0.77 ^***	2.61	0.05 ^***	−0.57	0.49	−2.65	0.49 ^***
N	7816		7816		7816		6531		6531		6531
R2/Pseudo R2	0.00		0.08		0.13		0.01		0.12		0.17
Asian Generational Differences

Indepdendent Variables:	College Enrollment²						GPA¹
	(1)		(2)		(3)		(1)		(2)		(3)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Generation 1	0.86	0.26 ^***	1.44	0.33 ^***	1.35	0.34 ^***	0.32	0.10 ^***	0.32	0.11 ^**	0.26	0.11 ^*
Generation 2	0.98	0.30 ^**	1.07	0.41 ^**	1.07	0.39 ^**	0.23	0.09 ^*	0.18	0.11	0.17	0.11
Generation 3	0.42	0.41	0.22	0.48	0.31	0.47	0.21	0.14	0.11	0.13	0.14	0.12
Age			0.05	0.02 ^*	0.11	0.03 ^***			−0.02	0.01 ⁺	0.01	0.01
Female			0.53	0.07 ^***	0.47	0.07 ^***			0.39	0.03 ^***	0.35	0.03 ^***
Single-parent family			−0.76	0.09 ^***	−0.64	0.09 ^***			−0.32	0.04 ^***	−0.23	0.03 ^***
Step-parent family			−0.66	0.12 ^***	−0.64	0.12 ^***			−0.17	0.04 ^***	−0.14	0.04 ^***
Family income			0.15	0.06 ^*	0.15	0.06 ^**			0.04	0.02 ⁺	0.04	0.02 ⁺
Income imputed			−0.10	0.12	−0.02	0.12			−0.05	0.05	−0.01	0.05
Avg parental education			0.41	0.02 ^***	0.40	0.02 ^***			0.11	0.01 ^***	0.11	0.01 ^***
Asian Ethnicity B			−0.38	0.44	−0.45	0.45			0.09	0.18	0.05	0.18
Attitudes Scale					0.06	0.01 ^***					0.03	0.00 ^***
Rarely skips school					0.68	0.10 ^***					0.36	0.04 ^***
Constant	0.56	0.08 ^***	−7.14	0.73 ^***	−10.44	0.79 ^***	2.42	0.03 ^***	0.70	0.31 ^*	−1.05	0.28 ^***
N	7816		7816		7816		6557		6557		6557
R2/Pseudo R2	0.01						0.01		0.18		0.25
Asian Generational Differences			^a, ^c		^a

OLS coefficients

Logistic regression coefficients

First and third generations significantly different

First and second generations significantly different

Second and third generations significantly different

Statistical Significance:

⁺

p<0.1

p< .05

^**

p< .01

^***

p<.001