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Lutz, Amy. and Crist, Stephanie. "Gender Differences in Bilingualism among Latino/a Children of Immigrants: The Impacts of Gender, Language, and Family Interaction on Academic Achievement" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 11, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p102433_index.html>

Lutz, A. C. and Crist, S. K. , 2006-08-11 "Gender Differences in Bilingualism among Latino/a Children of Immigrants: The Impacts of Gender, Language, and Family Interaction on Academic Achievement" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p102433_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Gender Differences in Bilingualism among Latino/a Children of Immigrants: The Impacts of Gender, Language, and Family Interaction on Academic Achievement Abstract In this paper we examine how gender and Spanish language skills together impact the academic achievement of English-proficient Latino/a children of immigrants. Further, we examine the role that family interaction may play in mediating the impact of gender and language on achievement. We find that the impact of language skills on grade point average differs across gender. Biliterate boys significantly outperform boys who have little Spanish proficiency. However for girls there is no significant advantage or disadvantage to biliteracy in terms of GPA. Our results suggest that for Latino boys, the academic advantage of biliteracy is explained by strong family social cohesion. Our results also suggest that while within-family social capital provides a scholastic benefit from family social cohesion in the case of biliterate boys, strong family ties can also have academic disadvantages. Net of language skills, gender, and a vector of social controls familism is associated with significantly lower academic performance.

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