We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions …

follow similar patterns. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of localized contact in shaping identity …

, citizenship, and forced education. There is little consensus, however, whether and to what extent federal assimilation efforts … impact of federal assimilation policies on childhood mortality. We use children ever born and children surviving data … white population. The impact of assimilation policies was mixed. Increased ability to speak English was associated with …

children retain a Mexican ethnicity. Such findings raise the possibility that selective ethnic "attrition" might bias observed …

assimilation is larger to someone from a small minority than to one from a large minority group. When a society has a very large … majority of individuals from one culture, individuals from minority groups will be assimilated more quickly. Assimilation is … may explain the recent rise in multiculturalism. Individuals do not properly internalize the social value of assimilation …