Immigrant examination behavior

Gil S. Epstein; Shahar Sansani

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2019.1690635

Immigrant examination behavior

Gil S. Epstein, Shahar Sansani

Department of Economics

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

In this paper, we estimate differences in examination behavior between immigrants and natives, by examining differences in the propensity to forego a passing grade on a final exam in order to retake that final exam. Retaking a final exam involves some level of uncertainty, so differences in examination behavior may be due to differences in motivation, risk-taking, and discipline. We find that immigrants are about 2 percentage points more likely to retake a passed exam than natives. This represents a large difference given a baseline retake rate of about 6.5 percentage points.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	136-155
Number of pages	20
Journal	Education Economics
Volume	28
Issue number	2
Early online date	12 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2019.1690635
State	Published - 3 Mar 2020

Keywords

Immigrant-native differences
examination behavior
motivation
uncertainty

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Education
Economics and Econometrics

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