Parental Human Capital and Adolescents' Executive Function: Immigrants' Diminished Returns.

ABSTRACT: Racial minorities, particularly non-Hispanic Blacks in the US, experience weaker effects of family socioeconomic position (SEP) on tangible outcomes, a pattern called Minorities' Diminished Returns (MDRs). These MDRs are frequently shown for the effects of family SEP on immigrant adolescents' school performance. As a result of these MDRs, immigrant adolescents from high SEP families show worse than expected cognitive outcomes, including but not limited to poor school performance. However, the existing knowledge is minimal about the role of executive function in explaining diminished returns of family SEP on adolescents' outcomes. To investigate racial differences in the effects of parental human capital on adolescents' executive function, we compared non-Hispanic White non-immigrant and im

SUBMITTER: Assari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7695233 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature