Table 4:

Odds ratios from logistic regression models examining differences in schooling progress among the children of immigrants with varies types of degrees.

	STEM	S. Sciences	Arts and Hum.	Business	Other
1.0 generation	3.52^***	2.91^***	5.45^***	2.45^***	4.52^***
	(0.081)	(0.104)	(0.307)	(0.077)	(0.20)
1.5 generation	1.73^***	1.22^***	2.52^***	1.90^***	1.48^***
	(0.032)	(0.040)	(0.106)	(0.044)	(0.055)
1.75 generation	0.82^***	1.12^***	1.13^*	1.03	1.24^***
	(0.018)	(0.035)	(0.054)	(0.027)	(0.047)
Second generation (Ref.)	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -
Age	1.12^***	1.09^**	0.99	1.05^*	1.09^***
	(0.003)	(0.005)	(0.008)	(0.005)	(0.007)
Female	0.82^***	0.81^***	0.68^***	0.78^**	0.76^***
	(0.009)	(0.014)	(0.018)	(0.011)	(0.016)
Asian	1.00	0.93	1.44^***	0.71^***	0.77^***
	(0.023)	(0.035)	(0.080)	(0.022)	(0.039)
Black	1.26^***	1.68^**	1.33^***	1.22^***	2.48^***
	(0.030)	(0.055)	(0.071)	(0.033)	(0.091)
Hispanic	1.48^***	1.39^***	1.41^***	1.06^**	1.41^***
	(0.029)	(0.038)	(0.059)	(0.025)	(0.047)
Other	0.73^***	1.12^**	1.12^*	0.69^***	0.56^***
	(0.020)	(0.039)	(0.055)	(0.026)	(0.032)
White (Ref.)	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -
English proficient	1.18^*	1.14^***	1.06	1.00	1.34^***
	(0.015)	(0.022)	(0.032)	(0.017)	(0.032)
One immigrant parent	1.29^***	1.13^***	1.18^***	1.22^***	0.94^*
	(0.030)	(0.028)	(0.043)	(0.024)	(0.027)
Two immigrant parents (Ref.)	- 1.00 -	- 1.00 -	- 1.00 -	- 1.00 -	- 1.00 -
Single-parent family	0.66^***	1.77^***	0.50^***	0.92	0.64^***
	(0.033)	(0.089)	(0.070)	(0.052)	(0.060)
Married Household head	0.59^***	1.60^***	0.35^***	0.86^**	0.42^***
	(0.029)	(0.079)	(0.049)	(0.048)	(0.039)
Female household head	1.01	0.88^***	0.80^***	0.87^***	0.86^***
	(0.013)	(0.017)	(0.023)	(0.014)	(0.020)
Household head age	0.98^***	1.00	1.01	0.99^***	1.00
	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.002)	(0.00)	(0.002)
Has a foreign-educated parent	1.13^***	1.25^***	0.78^***	1.40^***	0.93^**
	(0.015)	(0.027)	(0.025)	(0.024)	(0.025)
Parent has a Phd.	0.80^***	0.80^***	1.40^***	0.55^***	1.19^***
	(0.017)	(0.029)	(0.058)	(0.038)	(0.053)
Household head from Asia	0.79^***	1.23^***	0.64^***	1.12^*	1.20^***
	(0.017)	(0.040)	(0.032)	(0.031)	(0.051)
Household head from Europe	1.02	1.30^***	0.85^***	0.91^**	1.34^***
	(0.021)	(0.038)	(0.036)	(0.025)	(0.048)
Household head from other regions	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -
Spouse from Asia	1.08	0.84^***	1.23^***	0.77^***	1.07
	(0.022)	(0.026)	(0.052)	(0.021)	(0.045)
Spouse from Europe	1.20	0.82^***	0.98	0.58^***	1.24^***
	(0.022)	(0.027)	(0.043)	(0.018)	(0.045)
Spouse from other regions	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -	- 1.0 -
Family income (log)	0.89^***	0.92^***	0.96^***	0.93^***	0.99
	(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.007)	(0.004)	(0.008)
Family size	1.15^***	1.13^***	1.06^***	1.11^***	1.11^***
	(0.005)	(0.007)	(0.010)	(0.006)	(0.008)
Constant	0.04^***	0.01^***	0.10^***	0.05^***	0.02^***
Log likelihood	−138319	−57437	−25027.4	−79996.6	−38608.8

p<0.05

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p<0.01

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p<0.001. Standard errors are in parenthesis.

Data source: 2013–2017 American Community Survey.