How states can reduce the dropout rate for undocumented immigrant youth: The effects of in-state resident tuition policies

Potochnick, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.12.009

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“…This interpretation is bolstered by the findings of previous research showing that high school dropout for Mexican noncitizen youth is lower in states that adopted in-state tuition policies (Potochnick 2010). The consequences of the current restrictive policies may thus be more serious than previously suspected.…”

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Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth

Greenman

Hall

2013

Social Forces

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This study uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to infer the legal status of Mexican and Central American immigrant youth and to investigate its relationship with educational attainment. We assess differences by legal status in high school graduation and college enrollment, decompose differences in college enrollment into the probability of high school graduation and the probability of high school graduates' enrollment in college and estimate the contributions of personal and family background characteristics to such differences. Results show that undocumented students are less likely than documented students to both graduate from high school and enroll in college, and differences in college enrollment cannot be explained by family background characteristics. We conclude that legal status is a critical axis of stratification for Latinos.

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“…Potochnick (2010) provides an initial examination into this topic, by examining the effect of state higher education tuition policies on undocumented youths' likelihood of high school dropout, but using the same CPS-based measurement tool for identifying undocumented youth.…”

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Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth

Greenman

Hall

2013

Social Forces

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“…Some students who would have otherwise dropped out feel encouraged to stay in school, given the prospect of affordable college. Koohi (2013), Bozick and Miller (2014), and Potochnick (2014) all find an increase in high school enrollment or a decrease in high school dropout among likely unauthorized immigrants. The magnitude of the effect on high school enrollment or dropout varies across studies, from 3 percentage points in Koohi (2013) to 11 percentage points in Potochnick (2014).…”

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“…Koohi (2013), Bozick and Miller (2014), and Potochnick (2014) all find an increase in high school enrollment or a decrease in high school dropout among likely unauthorized immigrants. The magnitude of the effect on high school enrollment or dropout varies across studies, from 3 percentage points in Koohi (2013) to 11 percentage points in Potochnick (2014). Koohi (2013) also finds a significant reduction in teen birthrates among Mexican foreign-born noncitizens, which further suggests an influence of the reduced cost of higher education on other aspects of behavior.…”

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A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

Karoly¹,

Pérez‐Arce²

2016

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This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.html.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/rr1397Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2016 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii Preface Traditionally, immigration policy has been a federal responsibility, but, in the past decade, states have begun to adopt policies through legislation and other actions to respond to trends in unauthorized immigration. In some states, policies have taken the form of omnibus legislation designed to place restrictions on immigrants who are in the United States without authorization, through actions of law enforcement and employers, as well as limits in other aspects of public life. In other states, policies have been adopted one by one, such as requiring employers in the public and private sectors to verify employment eligibility through E-Verify, to preclude access to driver's licenses for individuals who are not authorized to be in the country, and to exclude unauthorized students from eligibility for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. At the same time, some states have also adopted policies toward unauthorized immigrants that are unrestrictive-for example, by making driver's licenses available to all regardless of immigration status or basing access to in-state tuition solely on residency requirements, regardless of immigration status.The expanding role of states in these areas of policy raises questions about the consequences of state-level action for various stakeholders in the public and private sectors. Within this context, the goals of this study are to• develop a cost-benefit framework for classifying the potential impacts of specific statelevel policies, identifying the potential domains of impact and how different stakeholders in the public and private sectors would be affected • review the research literature to identify empirical evidence, where it exists, regarding the likely magnitudes of the impacts of specific state-level immigration-related policies • use the cost-benefit fr...

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“…We tested it separately from the demographic accounting method because it is sometimes used to proxy legal status in policy analyses (e.g., Bohn et al 2014; Bozick and Miller 2014; Flores 2010; Kaushal 2006; Potochnick 2014). It codes as legal those in the target data who have characteristics that make it very unlikely they are unauthorized (i.e., those who are “probably legal”), and all others as unauthorized.…”

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Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of Immigrant Legal Status Imputation Approaches

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Researchers have developed logical, demographic, and statistical strategies for imputing immigrants’ legal status, but these methods have never been empirically assessed. We used Monte Carlo simulations to test whether, and under what conditions, legal status imputation approaches yield unbiased estimates of the association of unauthorized status with health insurance coverage. We tested five methods under a range of missing data scenarios. Logical and demographic imputation methods yielded biased estimates across all missing data scenarios. Statistical imputation approaches yielded unbiased estimates only when unauthorized status was jointly observed with insurance coverage; when this condition was not met, these methods overestimated insurance coverage for unauthorized relative to legal immigrants. We next showed how bias can be reduced by incorporating prior information about unauthorized immigrants. Finally, we demonstrated the utility of the best-performing statistical method for increasing power. We used it to produce state/regional estimates of insurance coverage among unauthorized immigrants in the Current Population Survey, a data source that contains no direct measures of immigrants’ legal status. We conclude that commonly employed legal status imputation approaches are likely to produce biased estimates, but data and statistical methods exist that could substantially reduce these biases.

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How states can reduce the dropout rate for undocumented immigrant youth: The effects of in-state resident tuition policies

Cited by 64 publications

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Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth

Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth

A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of Immigrant Legal Status Imputation Approaches

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