Many U.S.-born descendants of Mexican immigrants do not identify as Mexican or Hispanic in response to the Hispanic …-2019 American Community Surveys, we show that the age at arrival of Mexican immigrants exerts an important influence on ethnic … identification not only for these immigrants themselves but also for their U.S.-born children. Among Mexican immigrants who arrived …

Previous study by Card and Lewis (2005) has found (puzzling) that inflows of Mexican immigrants into "new" metropolitan … areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect … considers variations across occupations. Recognizing that Mexican immigrants are highly occupationally clustered …

Mexican and US Censuses, and use the calibrated model for policy evaluation. I evaluate the long run effect of the Progresa … to school at lower grades, the Mexican government will improve the educational distribution of future generations and …

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 …