Parents' years in Sweden and children's educational performance

Artikel

This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents' incorporation experiences, measured as time in Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course grades and national standardized test scores in Swedish and math by parents'country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents' time in Sweden on their children's performance in Swedish, but not for math performance. These results demonstrate the importance of parents' linguistic acculturation on their children' educational performance.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 6 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: Intergenerational mobility ; Immigrant incorporation ; Years since migration ; Second generation ; Family fixed-effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Smith, Christopher D. ; Helgertz, Jonas ; Scott, Kirk
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40176-016-0054-2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149453
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET