Stephanie Potochnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 219882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Potochnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Potochnick |
| SIGNATURE | POTOCHNICK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4721-5140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations
The 2016 US election of Donald Trump ushered in a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal policies that have been shown to harm immigrant families. This study examines how the election affected immigrant-serving community-based organizations (CBOs), which provide vital support to these communities and may mitigate harm. Focusing on migrant-legal CBOs — a key subset that offers pro-bono or low-cost legal services — and incorporating theories f…
Using civically engaged research to promote young Black and Latino children’s well-being: Lessons from a new interdisciplinary community-university, faculty–student collaboration
Health Care Access Among Children in Latinx Families Across U.S. Destinations
Latinx children now live in a wider array of U.S. geographic areas than in the past, including both established and new areas of Latinx settlement. This geographic heterogeneity could be consequential for Latinx children’s health care access, with prior research suggesting increased health access barriers for Latinx children in new versus established areas of settlement. Merging public-use county-level data with restricted individual-level health…
Immigrant Parent Legal Status and Children’s Health in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth)
U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
This study provides a national-level assessment of occupational mobility and early-career attainment of children of immigrants based on parents' origin-country occupation. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study, we examine how parent-child U.S. intergenerational occupational mobility patterns and child occupational attainment differ based on parental premigration occupational status (i.e., low- vs. high-skilled) and paren…
Latino Political Participation by Citizenship Status and Immigrant Generation
Objective Using the complementary 2012 American National Election Study and 2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, we examine Latino political participation by citizenship and immigrant generation status. Methods We use logistic regression to examine three political participation modes—voting, campaign activity, and civic participation—across four Latino subgroups (noncitizens, naturalized citizens, second generation, and third‐plus gener…
Integrating Hispanic immigrant youth: Perspectives from white and black Americans in emerging Hispanic communities and schools
Acculturation is bidirectional and includes not only the process of Hispanics adaptation to US culture(s) but also the process of US cultural adaptations to Hispanics. However, few studies of Hispanic adolescent adaptation have examined the ways in which US society accommodates or fails to accommodate its Hispanic immigrant populations. Our study addresses this gap by examining the ways in which non-Hispanic students, parents, and teachers in an …
The Academic Adaptation of Immigrant Students with Interrupted Schooling
This study provides the first national-level assessment of the size and academic performance of immigrant students with interrupted schooling. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study (2002), a national-level survey of U.S. 10th graders, this study identifies students with interrupted schooling and uses multivariate analysis to assess their academic performance compared to other immigrants and nonimmigrants. Results indicat…
Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Health and Cognitive Development Among Children of Immigrants
Food insecurity is negatively related to child development and health. In this study, we use Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data to assess the cognitive and health consequences of household food insecurity for children of immigrants compared with children of native-born parents. Results suggest that children of immigrants from food insecure households fare worse than their native peers from food insecure households in health but …
A Decade of Analysis: Household Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Immigrant Children
Our study advances literature on immigrant food insecurity by examining whether national-level differences in immigrant and nonimmigrant families' risk of food insecurity persist across time and for different ethnic/racial groups. Using data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement for low-income households with children aged 0 to 17 years, we examine trends (2003-2013) in immigrant and nonimmigrant food insecurity overall and …
Decomposing the Household Food Insecurity Gap for Children of U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Hispanics: Evidence from 1998 to 2011
Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Food Insecurity Risk among Hispanic Immigrant Families with Children: National-Level Evidence
Reversing welfare reform? Immigrant restoration efforts and food stamp receipt among Mexican immigrant families
The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants’ Educational Experiences 1990–2002
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educatio…
The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Established Settlement States: The Role of Family, Schools, and Neighborhoods
How states can reduce the dropout rate for undocumented immigrant youth: The effects of in-state resident tuition policies
Changing course: The gender gap in college selectivity and opportunities to learn in the high school curriculum
Gender gaps in learning and education outcomes have changed dramatically over the last few years. However, researchers have not adequately assessed how the high school learning environment differentially affects boys and girls. An important component of the learning environment in US secondary school is the opportunity to learn in an Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum, which allows high school students to do college-level work. Using the US Natio…
Race, secondary school course of study, and college type
Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Daily Psychological Well‐Being of Latino Youth
Our analysis contributes to understanding the acculturation experiences of immigrant youth and the roles of social context in shaping adolescent mental health
Student Achievement and College Selectivity: How Changes in Achievement During High School Affect the Selectivity of College Attended
Researchers who examine the link between high school achievement and educational outcomes include measures of achievement that conflate high school effects with achievement effects established prior to high school. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, this article disaggregates achievement into achievement prior to high school (in the eighth grade) and changes in achievement during high school. The authors find that the pres…
Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Academic Motivations of Latino Youth in the U.S. Southeast
Using data on 459 Latino 9(th) graders from the LA-SIAA and the NC-SIAA studies, we evaluate the specific educational values and beliefs that motivate the academic achievement of Latino youth and contrast the school experiences of Latino youth in an emerging Latino community, North Carolina, with the school experiences of youth living in a traditional settlement community, Los Angeles. Despite their greater fears of discrimination, we find that L…
Staying Back and Dropping Out: The Relationship Between Grade Retention and School Dropout
Students who repeat a grade prior to high school have a higher risk of dropping out of high school than do students who are continuously promoted. This study tested whether standard theories of dropout-including the participation-identification model and the social capital model-explain this link. Although the presence of variables, including academic achievement and disciplinary problems, reduces the higher probability of retained students dropp…
Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican-American Underachievement
Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Academic Motivations of Latino Youth in the U.S. Southeast
Using data on 459 Latino 9(th) graders from the LA-SIAA and the NC-SIAA studies, we evaluate the specific educational values and beliefs that motivate the academic achievement of Latino youth and contrast the school experiences of Latino youth in an emerging Latino community, North Carolina, with the school experiences of youth living in a traditional settlement community, Los Angeles. Despite their greater fears of discrimination, we find that L…
Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Daily Psychological Well‐Being of Latino Youth
Our analysis contributes to understanding the acculturation experiences of immigrant youth and the roles of social context in shaping adolescent mental health
Staying Back and Dropping Out: The Relationship Between Grade Retention and School Dropout
Students who repeat a grade prior to high school have a higher risk of dropping out of high school than do students who are continuously promoted. This study tested whether standard theories of dropout-including the participation-identification model and the social capital model-explain this link. Although the presence of variables, including academic achievement and disciplinary problems, reduces the higher probability of retained students dropp…
How states can reduce the dropout rate for undocumented immigrant youth: The effects of in-state resident tuition policies
Latino Political Participation by Citizenship Status and Immigrant Generation
Objective Using the complementary 2012 American National Election Study and 2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, we examine Latino political participation by citizenship and immigrant generation status. Methods We use logistic regression to examine three political participation modes—voting, campaign activity, and civic participation—across four Latino subgroups (noncitizens, naturalized citizens, second generation, and third‐plus gener…
The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Established Settlement States: The Role of Family, Schools, and Neighborhoods
The Academic Adaptation of Immigrant Students with Interrupted Schooling
This study provides the first national-level assessment of the size and academic performance of immigrant students with interrupted schooling. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study (2002), a national-level survey of U.S. 10th graders, this study identifies students with interrupted schooling and uses multivariate analysis to assess their academic performance compared to other immigrants and nonimmigrants. Results indicat…
U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
This study provides a national-level assessment of occupational mobility and early-career attainment of children of immigrants based on parents' origin-country occupation. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study, we examine how parent-child U.S. intergenerational occupational mobility patterns and child occupational attainment differ based on parental premigration occupational status (i.e., low- vs. high-skilled) and paren…
Integrating Hispanic immigrant youth: Perspectives from white and black Americans in emerging Hispanic communities and schools
Acculturation is bidirectional and includes not only the process of Hispanics adaptation to US culture(s) but also the process of US cultural adaptations to Hispanics. However, few studies of Hispanic adolescent adaptation have examined the ways in which US society accommodates or fails to accommodate its Hispanic immigrant populations. Our study addresses this gap by examining the ways in which non-Hispanic students, parents, and teachers in an …
Student Achievement and College Selectivity: How Changes in Achievement During High School Affect the Selectivity of College Attended
Researchers who examine the link between high school achievement and educational outcomes include measures of achievement that conflate high school effects with achievement effects established prior to high school. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, this article disaggregates achievement into achievement prior to high school (in the eighth grade) and changes in achievement during high school. The authors find that the pres…
Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican-American Underachievement
Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Health and Cognitive Development Among Children of Immigrants
Food insecurity is negatively related to child development and health. In this study, we use Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data to assess the cognitive and health consequences of household food insecurity for children of immigrants compared with children of native-born parents. Results suggest that children of immigrants from food insecure households fare worse than their native peers from food insecure households in health but …
Changing course: The gender gap in college selectivity and opportunities to learn in the high school curriculum
Gender gaps in learning and education outcomes have changed dramatically over the last few years. However, researchers have not adequately assessed how the high school learning environment differentially affects boys and girls. An important component of the learning environment in US secondary school is the opportunity to learn in an Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum, which allows high school students to do college-level work. Using the US Natio…
Using civically engaged research to promote young Black and Latino children’s well-being: Lessons from a new interdisciplinary community-university, faculty–student collaboration
A Decade of Analysis: Household Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Immigrant Children
Our study advances literature on immigrant food insecurity by examining whether national-level differences in immigrant and nonimmigrant families' risk of food insecurity persist across time and for different ethnic/racial groups. Using data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement for low-income households with children aged 0 to 17 years, we examine trends (2003-2013) in immigrant and nonimmigrant food insecurity overall and …
Reversing welfare reform? Immigrant restoration efforts and food stamp receipt among Mexican immigrant families
The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants’ Educational Experiences 1990–2002
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educatio…
Race, secondary school course of study, and college type
Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican-American Underachievement
Staying Back and Dropping Out: The Relationship Between Grade Retention and School Dropout
Students who repeat a grade prior to high school have a higher risk of dropping out of high school than do students who are continuously promoted. This study tested whether standard theories of dropout-including the participation-identification model and the social capital model-explain this link. Although the presence of variables, including academic achievement and disciplinary problems, reduces the higher probability of retained students dropp…
Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Academic Motivations of Latino Youth in the U.S. Southeast
Using data on 459 Latino 9(th) graders from the LA-SIAA and the NC-SIAA studies, we evaluate the specific educational values and beliefs that motivate the academic achievement of Latino youth and contrast the school experiences of Latino youth in an emerging Latino community, North Carolina, with the school experiences of youth living in a traditional settlement community, Los Angeles. Despite their greater fears of discrimination, we find that L…
Student Achievement and College Selectivity: How Changes in Achievement During High School Affect the Selectivity of College Attended
Researchers who examine the link between high school achievement and educational outcomes include measures of achievement that conflate high school effects with achievement effects established prior to high school. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, this article disaggregates achievement into achievement prior to high school (in the eighth grade) and changes in achievement during high school. The authors find that the pres…
Fitting In: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Daily Psychological Well‐Being of Latino Youth
Our analysis contributes to understanding the acculturation experiences of immigrant youth and the roles of social context in shaping adolescent mental health
Changing course: The gender gap in college selectivity and opportunities to learn in the high school curriculum
Gender gaps in learning and education outcomes have changed dramatically over the last few years. However, researchers have not adequately assessed how the high school learning environment differentially affects boys and girls. An important component of the learning environment in US secondary school is the opportunity to learn in an Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum, which allows high school students to do college-level work. Using the US Natio…
Race, secondary school course of study, and college type
The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants’ Educational Experiences 1990–2002
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educatio…
The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Established Settlement States: The Role of Family, Schools, and Neighborhoods
How states can reduce the dropout rate for undocumented immigrant youth: The effects of in-state resident tuition policies
Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Food Insecurity Risk among Hispanic Immigrant Families with Children: National-Level Evidence
Reversing welfare reform? Immigrant restoration efforts and food stamp receipt among Mexican immigrant families
Decomposing the Household Food Insecurity Gap for Children of U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Hispanics: Evidence from 1998 to 2011
The Academic Adaptation of Immigrant Students with Interrupted Schooling
This study provides the first national-level assessment of the size and academic performance of immigrant students with interrupted schooling. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study (2002), a national-level survey of U.S. 10th graders, this study identifies students with interrupted schooling and uses multivariate analysis to assess their academic performance compared to other immigrants and nonimmigrants. Results indicat…
Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Health and Cognitive Development Among Children of Immigrants
Food insecurity is negatively related to child development and health. In this study, we use Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data to assess the cognitive and health consequences of household food insecurity for children of immigrants compared with children of native-born parents. Results suggest that children of immigrants from food insecure households fare worse than their native peers from food insecure households in health but …
A Decade of Analysis: Household Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Immigrant Children
Our study advances literature on immigrant food insecurity by examining whether national-level differences in immigrant and nonimmigrant families' risk of food insecurity persist across time and for different ethnic/racial groups. Using data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement for low-income households with children aged 0 to 17 years, we examine trends (2003-2013) in immigrant and nonimmigrant food insecurity overall and …
Latino Political Participation by Citizenship Status and Immigrant Generation
Objective Using the complementary 2012 American National Election Study and 2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, we examine Latino political participation by citizenship and immigrant generation status. Methods We use logistic regression to examine three political participation modes—voting, campaign activity, and civic participation—across four Latino subgroups (noncitizens, naturalized citizens, second generation, and third‐plus gener…
Integrating Hispanic immigrant youth: Perspectives from white and black Americans in emerging Hispanic communities and schools
Acculturation is bidirectional and includes not only the process of Hispanics adaptation to US culture(s) but also the process of US cultural adaptations to Hispanics. However, few studies of Hispanic adolescent adaptation have examined the ways in which US society accommodates or fails to accommodate its Hispanic immigrant populations. Our study addresses this gap by examining the ways in which non-Hispanic students, parents, and teachers in an …
U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
This study provides a national-level assessment of occupational mobility and early-career attainment of children of immigrants based on parents' origin-country occupation. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study, we examine how parent-child U.S. intergenerational occupational mobility patterns and child occupational attainment differ based on parental premigration occupational status (i.e., low- vs. high-skilled) and paren…
Immigrant Parent Legal Status and Children’s Health in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth)
Using civically engaged research to promote young Black and Latino children’s well-being: Lessons from a new interdisciplinary community-university, faculty–student collaboration
Health Care Access Among Children in Latinx Families Across U.S. Destinations
Latinx children now live in a wider array of U.S. geographic areas than in the past, including both established and new areas of Latinx settlement. This geographic heterogeneity could be consequential for Latinx children’s health care access, with prior research suggesting increased health access barriers for Latinx children in new versus established areas of settlement. Merging public-use county-level data with restricted individual-level health…
The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations
The 2016 US election of Donald Trump ushered in a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal policies that have been shown to harm immigrant families. This study examines how the election affected immigrant-serving community-based organizations (CBOs), which provide vital support to these communities and may mitigate harm. Focusing on migrant-legal CBOs — a key subset that offers pro-bono or low-cost legal services — and incorporating theories f…
Sociology (17 works) · Immigration (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (9 works) · Demography (8 works)