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 microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that … responses 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 …

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 …