achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. First, using Census data for U.S.-born youth ages 16-17 who … have at least one Mexican parent, we estimate how the Mexican identification, high school dropout rates, and English … extent and selectivity of ethnic attrition among second-generation Mexican-American adults and among U.S.-born Mexican …

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more … educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans … or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican spouses of intermarried Mexican Americans possess relatively high …

generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …

generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …

specifically, Mexican. Linking data on self-reported ethnicity, ancestry, and parental place of birth with county-level voter … support for Proposition 187, we show that individuals with stronger ties to Mexican ancestry or parentage are less likely to … identify ethnically as Mexican in response to support for Proposition 187, just as individuals with weaker ties to Mexican …

Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that … to these questions reflect varying degrees of ethnic attachment. For example, those identified as Mexican in both the … Hispanic origin and the ancestry questions might have stronger ethnic ties than those identified as Mexican only in the …