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...
| Published in: | Journal of Economic History Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 961 - 996 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2020
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