Ethnic Differences in School Attendance in Antebellum Massachusetts

Evidence from Newburyport, 1850–1860

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11204601
AutoresSteven Herscovici (autor correspondente)
Ano1994
Volume18
Fascículo4
Páginas471-496
Data de publicação1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0145553200017120
OpenAlexW2321451537
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas21

Historians who have studied school attendance in the nineteenth century have noted the differences in enrollment rates between children of immigrants and children of parents born in the United States. These differences in attendance rates apparently persist even after controlling for the social and economic backgrounds of the children. Despite the fact that this result is familiar in the literature, historians have not agreed upon a single cause for these differences (Kaestle and Vinovskis 1980; Soltow and Stevens 1981; Perlmann 1988). Scholars have debated many possible reasons: perhaps different cultural or religious circumstances led immigrants and native-born Americans to act differently toward their children’s education; perhaps immigrants took their children out of school earlier because they could not afford the luxury of educating their children; or perhaps immigrants made a conscious choice between the education of their children and better housing, or other consumption for themselves and their families

Attendance · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Immigration · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies