Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans
By: Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo.
Contributors: Trejo, Stephen J., 1959-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11423; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11423.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Mexican Americans.; Intermarriage -- United States.; Ethnicity -- United States.; Americanization.
Description: "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 levels of schooling and English proficiency, compared to the spouses of endogamously married Mexican Americans.  The human capital selectivity of Mexican intermarriage generates corresponding differences in the employment and earnings of Mexican Americans and their spouses.  Moreover, the children of intermarried Mexican Americans are much less likely to be identified as Mexican than are the children of endogamous Mexican marriages.  These forces combine to produce strong negative correlations between the education, English proficiency, employment, and earnings of Mexican-American parents and the chances that their children retain a Mexican ethnicity.  Such findings raise the possibility that selective ethnic "attrition" might bias observed measures of intergenerational progress for Mexican Americans"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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