Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207528 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12704
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
assimilation
generational progress
Mexican Americans
JEL: 
J15
J61
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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