Post-secondary school participation of immigrant and native youth: The role of familial resources and educational expectations

JE Glick, MJ White - Social science research, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper extends contemporary research on educational attainment by examining how
structural background and familial resources, such as parental involvement and parental
expectations, are translated into differential participation in post-secondary education by first-
and second-generation youth from different racial and ethnic groups. Longitudinal,
nationally representative data from the 1988–1994 panels of the National Education
Longitudinal Study (NELS) reveal that the overwhelming majority of immigrant parents …