New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan (), Jeffrey Grogger, Ana Sofia Leon () and Stephen Trejo
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Brian Duncan: University of Colorado Denver
Ana Sofia Leon: Universidad Diego Portales
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Daron Acemoglu

No 12704, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: U.S.-born Mexican Americans suffer a large schooling deficit relative to other Americans, and standard data sources suggest that this deficit does not shrink between the 2nd and later generations. Standard data sources lack information on grandparents’ countries of birth, however, which creates potentially serious issues for tracking the progress of later-generation Mexican Americans. Exploiting unique NLSY97 data that address these measurement issues, we find substantial educational progress between the 2nd and 3rd generations for a recent cohort of Mexican Americans. Such progress is obscured when we instead mimic the limitations inherent in standard data sources. Similar patterns emerge for cognitive test scores and for annual earnings.

Keywords: Mexican Americans; generational progress; assimilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 73 pages
Date: 2019-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-cmp, nep-ino, nep-ltv, nep-pay and nep-tid
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Published - published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101771

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Journal Article: New evidence of generational progress for Mexican Americans (2020)
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