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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ind Labor Relat Rev. 2016 Nov 12;70(5):1146–1175. doi: 10.1177/0019793916679613

Table 7.

Education Regressions for Asian Source Countries

Second-Generation Adults
Third-Generation Children
Regressor
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2)
(3)
Intercept 15.05
    (.03)
14.35
    (.16)
14.57
    (.16)
15.15
    (.06)
10.77
    (.30)
10.74
    (.29)
Ethnic identification:
 Identified as Asian (reference group)
Not identified as Asian   −.62
    (.07)
  −.74
    (.08)
  −.70
    (.09)
  −.72
    (.08)
Ethnic identification by source of ethnicity
 Asian on both sides of family:
  Identified as Asian (reference group)
  Not identified as Asian   −.51
    (.22)
−3.06
    (.44)
 Asian on father’s side only:
  Identified as Asian   −.54
    (.09)
    .04
    (.14)
  Not identified as Asian   −.76
    (.13)
  −.36
    (.12)
 Asian on mother’s side only:
  Identified as Asian   −.60
    (.08)
    .39
    (.12)
  Not identified as Asian −1.25
    (.10)
  −.42
    (.12)
Other control variables No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
R2     .01     .08     .10     .03     .25     .28

Source: 2003–2013 CPS data.

Notes: The reported figures are estimates from least squares regressions in which the dependent variable is completed years of education; for third-generation children, this measure represents the average of father’s and mother’s education. Heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors are shown in parentheses. The sample sizes are 5,731 for second-generation adults and 2,396 for third-generation children. See Table 1 and the text for further information about the samples. The “other control variables” in specifications (2) and (3) include indicators for gender, geographic location, survey month, and survey year. For second-generation adults, the “other control variables” also include indicators for the respondent’s age. For third-generation children, these additional variables include the ages of the child and of his father and mother.