The Effect of Home Country Natural Disasters on the Academic Outcomes of Immigrant Students in New York City

Autor/in	Laurito, Agustina
Titel	The Effect of Home Country Natural Disasters on the Academic Outcomes of Immigrant Students in New York City
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 17 (2022) 2, S.309-334 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Natural Disasters; Immigrants; Public Schools; Outcomes of Education; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Achievement Tests; Scores; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Ausland; Korrelation; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen
Abstract	This paper estimates the impact of home country natural disasters on the academic performance of immigrant students in New York City public schools. It provides credible evidence of these effects by exploiting the exogenous timing of natural disasters relative to testing dates in models with student fixed effects. Natural disasters in the home country lower immigrant students' test scores in reading by 0.051 standard deviation, and by 0.028 standard deviation in mathematics. This paper provides strong evidence that the home country is an important out-of-school factor shaping immigrant students' academic success and shows that children are affected by distal contexts in which they do not directly participate. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01