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Is hyper-selectivity a root of Asian American children's success?
dc.contributor.author | Kim, ChangHwan | |
dc.contributor.author | Kim, Andrew Taeho | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-11T15:43:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-11T15:43:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-04-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | ChangHwan Kim, Andrew Taeho Kim, Is hyper-selectivity a root of Asian American children's success?, Social Science Research, Volume 113, 2023, 102886, ISSN 0049-089X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102886. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34165 | |
dc.description.abstract | Asian immigrants' children, even those from lower-backgrounds, tend to acquire higher levels of education than other ethnoracial groups, including White natives. Asian culture is often cited as a conventional explanation. The hyper-selectivity hypothesis challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that Asian American culture is an outcome of the community resources associated with hyper-selectivity. In this study, we assess the validity of the hyper-selectivity theory by examining the association between the magnitude of hyper-selectivity measured by the proportion of the BA + degree holders among the 1st generation Asian immigrants across communities and the likelihood of school enrollment for 1.5 and 2nd + generation Asian American children. Our results cast doubt on the hyper-selectivity theory. Asian American children's school enrollment is associated with the magnitude of educational selectivity among Asian immigrants for neither high school nor college. The benefits of hyper-selectivity do not seem to be cross-class or cross Asian ethnic groups. The higher the hyper-selectivity in a community is, the larger the education gap between upper- and lower-background Asian American children. The implications of these findings are discussed. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en_US |
dc.subject | Hyper-selectivity | en_US |
dc.subject | Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Asian American | en_US |
dc.subject | Education | en_US |
dc.title | Is hyper-selectivity a root of Asian American children's success? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Kim, ChangHwan | |
kusw.kuauthor | Kim, Andrew Taeho | |
kusw.kudepartment | Sociology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102886 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7149-1386 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |