El Sueño Americano? The Generational Progress of Mexican Americans Prior to World War II.

We present new estimates of the outcomes of first-generation Mexicans and their descendants between 1880 and 1940. We find zero convergence of the economic gap between Mexicans and non-Mexican whites across three generations. The great-grandchildren of immigrants also had fewer years of education. S...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Economic History Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 961 - 996
Autores principales:	Kosack, Edward, Ward, Zachary
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Dec2020
Materias:	Mexican Americans > Social conditions Development gap History of economic development
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