Qian, YueBuchmann, ClaudiaZhang, Zhe2019-07-022019-07-022018http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90825Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educational adaptation rarely considers whether there are differences in the educational adaptation patterns between men and women. Using a nationally representative sample of 2002 high school sophomores from the Educational Longitudinal Study, the authors examine gender-specific patterns of generational differences in high school grades and investigate racial/ethnic variation in these patterns.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationaleducational attainmentacademic achievementhigher education and genderGender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United StatesArticle - Refereedhttps://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/39/38-39.pdf#search=%22hispanic%20students%22