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Ancestry versus ethnicity : the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States

Duncan, Brian (contributor); Trejo, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2008

independently elicit their "ethnicity" (or Hispanic origin) and their "ancestry". We investigate whether different patterns of … the ancestry question. How U.S.-born Mexicans report their ethnicity/ancestry is strongly associated with measures of … especially high for men and women who claim a Mexican ancestry but report their ethnicity as "not Hispanic". Further …

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Incentives to identify : racial identity in the age of affirmative action

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2014

It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is most often self-reported by individuals who must weigh the costs and benefits of associating with minority groups, we ask whether racial self-identification responds to economic...

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Ethnic attrition, assimilation, and the measured health outcomes of Mexican Americans

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2020

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

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Incentives to identify: a comment

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019

Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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Ethnic identity and anti-immigrant sentiment : evidence from Proposition 187

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2024

specifically, Mexican. Linking data on self-reported ethnicity, ancestry, and parental place of birth with county-level voter … discrimination and hostility. At the same time, anti-minority sentiment may raise the salience of ethnicity and race and thus …

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