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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 11 Expectations to go to university (probit estimates)—students in upper secondary school with one parent born abroad

From: Cultural persistence or change? Gender differences in educational expectations of first and second-generation immigrants in Italy

Variables

Females

Males

Second generationa

First generationb

Second generation

First generation

Coeff. (std. errs.)

I

Coeff. (std. errs.)

II

Coeff. (std. errs.)

III

Coeff. (std. errs.)

IV

Coeff. (std. errs.)

V

Coeff. (std. errs.)

VI

North-East

− 0.170 (0.408)

0.021 (0.560)

− 0.167 (0.547)

0.526 (0.411)

− 0.48 (0.485)

− 0.541 (0.528)

North-West

− 0.217 (0.522)

0.460 (0.548)

− 0.089 (0.519)

0.1134 (0.442)

− 0.203 (0.481)

− 0.08 (0.481)

Center

− 0.156 (0.395)

0.587 (0.482)

0.697 (0.497)

− 0.027 (0.445)

0.031 (0.472)

− 0.334 (0.505)

Isles

 

0.635 (0.633)

0.921 (0.629)

− 0.477 (0.632)

− 0.063 (0.596)

− 0.232 (0.593)

Arrived in 2003/2007c)

 

0.211 (0.373)

− 0.139 (0.361)

 

0.168 (0.397)

− 0.043 (0.391)

Arrived in 2008/2014c

 

0.27 (0.463)

− 0.093 (0.478)

 

− 0.483 (0.475)

− 0.346 (0.455)

Arrived in 2015c

 

  

School year

0.644*** (0.199)

0.407** (0.186)

0.264 (0.239)

0.289* (0.170)

0.098 (0.178)

0.176 (0.168)

Family wealth

− 0.519* (0.304)

0.475 (0.34)

0.472 (0.373)

− 0.483** (0.221)

− 0.297 (0.265)

− 0.467* (0.271)

Working father

− 0.419 (0.486)

1.469** (0.513)

0.885** (0.415)

− 0.567 (0.406)

0.845 (0.57)

1.346** (0.662)

Working mother

− 0.027 (0.28)

− 0.498 (0.320)

0.048 (0.313)

− 0.221 (0.273)

− 0.836** (0.383)

− 0.717* (0.392)

Father’s education

− 0.281 (0.222)

− 0.220 (0.220)

− 0.129 (0.226)

0.157 (0.169)

− 0.211 (0.232)

− 0.351 (0.228)

Mother’s education

0.408* (0.216)

0.75*** (0.245)

0.507** (0.257)

0.346 (0.217)

0.747*** (0.232)

0.89*** (0.247)

BigMun

− 0.264 (0.415)

− 0.0016 (0.375)

− 0.023 (0.355)

0.389 (0.333)

0.842* (0.484)

0.853* (0.475)

ENR-90

0.018 (0.016)

0.024 (0.03)

 

− 0.004 (0.013)

0.041** (0.021)

 

GDP-90

− 0.00003 (0.00004)

− 0.0003 (0.0006)

 

− 0.00002 (0.00003)

0.000015 (0.22)

 

GII-95

0.864 (3.106)

− 11.894*** (3.045)

 

− 3.5 (2.63)

8.415** (3.55)

 

ENR-15

  

− 0.014 (0.012)

  

0.004 (0.011)

GDP-15

  

− 0.003 (0.001)**

  

0.00001 (0.00001)

GII-15

  

− 3.163* (1.745)

  

3.907** (1.989)

No. observations

166

122

130

206

122

126

Wald (n. parameters)

 

46.74

56.43

465.86

46.74

36.84

LL

− 5189.581

− 616.657

− 884.539

− 5824.725

− 616.657

− 685.939

Pseudo-R2

0.18

0.369

0.36

0.19

0.37

0.31

  1. Variables are defined in Table 1. *Statistically significant at 10% level; **statistically significant at 5% level; *** statistically significant at 1% level. aColumns I and IV refer to second-generation teens; bcolumns II, III, V and VI refer to first generation only; cthe reference dummy is “arrived before 2003”. Robust standard errors. Weighted analyses