Non-Citizen Mexican Youth in US Higher Education: A Closer Look at the Relationship between State Tuition Policies and College Enrollment.

• Autores: Robert Bozick, Trey Miller, Matheu Kaneshiro
• Localización: International migration review, ISSN 0197-9183, Vol. 50, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 864-889
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper examines state policies that extend or deny in-state tuition to children of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Using the Current Population Survey (1997-2010), we assess changes in college enrollment among Mexican-born non-citizens - a proxy for the undocumented population. In contrast to previous analyses, we find that policies extending in-state tuition to undocumented youth do not directly affect rates of college enrollment. However, we find that Mexican-born non-citizen youth residing in states that deny in-state tuition have a 12.1 percentage point lower probability of being enrolled in college than their peers living in states with no such policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]