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College Attendance and Choice of College Majors Among Asian-American Students

Social science quarterly, 2004-12, Vol.85 (5), p.1401-1421 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2004 Southwestern Social Science Association ;Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Dec 2004 ;ISSN: 0038-4941 ;EISSN: 1540-6237 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00283.x ;CODEN: SSQTAL

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Title:
College Attendance and Choice of College Majors Among Asian-American Students
Author: Song, Chunyan ; Glick, Jennifer E.
Subjects: Academic degrees ; Asian American people ; Asian Americans ; Asians ; Career development planning ; Careers ; Children & youth ; Chinese Americans ; Choice ; College attendance ; College Bound ; College Majors ; College students ; Colleges ; Education ; Education Work Relationship ; Educational attainment ; Educational Plans ; Ethnicity ; Families & family life ; Gender ; Gender differences ; Higher education ; Hispanic Americans ; Human capital ; Hypotheses ; Immigrants ; Income ; Influence ; Locus of control ; Men ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Minority students ; Motivation ; Noncitizens ; Occupations ; Parental expectations ; Parents ; Parents & parenting ; Racial Differences ; School attendance ; School choice ; Science ; Segregation ; Selection Procedures ; Self esteem ; Sex Differences ; Social mobility ; Socioeconomic factors ; Students ; Subjects ; Success ; Upward mobility ; USA ; Whites
Is Part Of: Social science quarterly, 2004-12, Vol.85 (5), p.1401-1421
Description: Objective. This study explores how various measures, ranging from assimilation, to human capital, to family capital, and Holland's career-development theories, affect Asian-American students' choice of college majors. To test our hypotheses, we examine choice of college major using a unique measure based on the early earning potential of a large number of specific majors. Methods. Our data come from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS88). We use the Heckman selection approach to adjust for the nonrandom selection of college attendance and choice of college majors. Results. The findings of the study show little difference between Asian men and white men. On the other hand, there are significant differences among women. Conclusions. Chinese, Filipino, and Southeast Asian women are all more likely to choose more lucrative college majors than white women, controlling for all the other factors. Interestingly, effects of our assimilation, psychological, and some of the family capital measures are quite different for men than for women.
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0038-4941
EISSN: 1540-6237
DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00283.x
CODEN: SSQTAL
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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College Attendance and Choice of College Majors Among Asian-American Students

2004 Southwestern Social Science Association ;Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Dec 2004 ;ISSN: 0038-4941 ;EISSN: 1540-6237 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00283.x ;CODEN: SSQTAL

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