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 … 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 …