Mexican Ancestry, Immigrant Generation, and Educational Attainment in the United States

After introducing alternative perspectives on assimilation and acculturation, we use the 2002-2012 waves of the Education Longitudinal Study to model differences in educational attainment for students sampled as high school sophomores in 2002. We focus on patterns observed for the growing Mexican i...

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Main Authors: Stephen L. Morgan, Dafna Gelbgiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2014-09-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/volume%201/september/SocSci_v1_397to422.pdf