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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 14 Expectations to go to upper secondary school (probit estimates)—female and male students attending lower secondary school

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

Variables

Whole sample

Females with both parents born abroad

Males with both parents born abroad

1st–2nd generation

1st generation

1st generation

1st–2nd generation

1st generation

1st 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

Coeff. (std errs)

VII

Females

0.172*** (0.048)

 

 

North-East

− 0.019 (0.061)

− 0.062 (0.111)

− 0.008 (0.095)

− 0.026 (0.097)

− 0.117 (0.076)

− 0.186** (0.080)

− 0.152* (0.082)

North-West

− 0.166** (0.066)

− 0.061 (0.130)

− 0.092 (0.124)

− 0.077 (0.123)

− 0.212** (0.085)

− 0.182** (0.093)

− 0.156* (0.093)

Center

− 0.038 (0.068)

− 0.133 (0.118)

− 0.095 (0.097)

− 0.107 (0.098)

− 0.060 (0.076)

0.006 (0.086)

0.017 (0.086)

Isles

− 0.032 (0.089)

0.049 (0.134)

0.087 (0.129)

0.062 (0.137)

0.008 (0.098)

0.082 (0.108)

0.087 (0.108)

Second generation

− 0.117** (0.057)

Arr. before 2003a

− 0.115 (0.118)

− 0.004 (0.162)

− 0.053 (0.09)

Arrived 2003/2007a

− 0.249*** (0.061)

− 0.209* (0.105)

− 0.229 (0.183)

− 0.169 (0.179)

− 0.123 (0.082)

− 0.069 (0.178)

− 0.086 (0.181)

Arrived 2008/2014a

− 0.415*** (0.052)

− 0.332*** (0.084)

− 0.353** (0.174)

− 0.309* (0.170)

− 0.336*** (0.075)

− 0.291* (0.176)

− 0.296* (0.162)

Arrived 2015a

− 0.437*** (0.096)

− 0.040 (0.143)

0.017 (0.215)

− 0.094 (0.200)

− 0.594*** (0.059)

− 0.556*** (0.062)

− 0.575*** (0.207)

Family wealth

− 0.029 (0.046)

− 0.013 (0.095)

− 0.157* (0.093)

− 0.018 (0.209)

− 0.062 (0.058)

− 0.056 (0.062)

− 0.055 (0.062)

Working father

0.230*** (0.073)

0.109 (0.113)

0.105 (0.124)

0.152* (0.091)

0.021 (0.115)

0.019 (0.091)

0.055 (0.095)

Working mother

− 0.099** (0.050)

− 0.069 (0.082)

− 0.007 (0.099)

0.009 (0.094)

0.087 (0.072)

− 0.041 (0.076)

0.029 (0.074)

Father’s education

0.053*** (0.014)

0.163** (0.056)

0.038 (0.069)

− 0.051 (0.072)

0.079** (0.039)

0.041 (0.047)

0.031 (0.053)

Mother’s educ

0.184*** (0.031)

− 0.109*** (0.021)

0.100*** (0.025)

0.318 (0.064)

0.055** (0.017)

0.061** (0.019)

0.097* (0.048)

BigMun

0.233*** (0.062)

0.166* (0090)

0.229** (0.111)

0.221** (0.111)

0.201** (0.081)

0.200** (0.090)

0.157* (0.091)

ENR-90

 

0.007 (0.006)

0.006 (0.005)

 

0.006 (0.076)

0.007* (0.004)

 

GDP-90

 

0.007 (0.01)

0.00004 (0.00003)

 

0.011 (0.076)

0.0003 (0.0015)

 

GII-95

 

0.489* (0.272)

0.229 (0.349)

)

0.659** (0.260)

0.732** (0.272)

 

ENR-15

   

−0.001(0.003)

  

0.007**(0.003)

GII-15

   

−0.067(0.49)

  

1.417**(0.379)

GDP-15

   

0.0003(0.005)

  

−0.0003(0.045)

MARGINAL EFFECTS

       

Father’s education

0.012***

0.042**

0.012

0.015

0.026**

0.014

0.01

Mother’s educ

0.041***

0.029***

0.029***

0.092***

0.018**

0.021**

0.033*

ENR-90

 

0.001

0.002

 

0.002

0.002*

 

GII-95

 

0.128*

0.065

 

0.214**

0.254***

 

ENR-15

   

0.0004

  

0.003**

GII-15

   

0.019

  

0.491***

LL

− 193,437.47

− 18,495.087

− 11,653.399

− 12,712.523

− 26,548.378

− 17,518.831

− 17,487.748

Wald test (param.)

411.51 (19)

142.11 (23)

112.34 (23)

74.38 (23)

166.11 (23)

93.47 (23)

91.63 (23)

Pseudo-R2

0.065

0.078

0.07

0.061

0.055

0.045

0.045

N. observations

16,404

3650

2434

2434

4495

3111

3111

  1. Dependent variable: dummy equal to 1 if respondent intends to stay on in education after lower secondary school, 0 otherwise. The other variables are defined in Table 1. aIn column 1, the excluded dummy is “Italians”; in columns II, and V, the excluded dummy is “Second Generation”; in columns III, IV, VI, VII, the excluded dummy is “Arrived before 2003”. *Statistically significant at 10% level; **Statistically significant at 5% level; ***Statistically significant at 1% level. Robust standard errors. Weighted analyses