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Author: Islam, Tariqul
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1. Alba, Richard
Abdel-Hady, Dalia
Islam, Tariqul
Marotz, Karen
Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment
In: The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. R. Alba and M Waters, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2011: 95-109
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: New York University Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; General Social Survey (GSS); Hispanic Studies; Hispanic Youth; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS)

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Chapter 5: In this chapter, we approach the same problem with national data that allow us to compare parents and children: we examine the educational attainments of Mexican Americans in several different data sets, including the General Social Survey (GSS), the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) of 1979, and the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) of 1988. The GSS data enable us to gain an overview of generational differences across a broad span of historical time (i.e., birth cohorts), while the NLSY and NELS data allow us to focus on specific recent birth cohorts (1957–1964 in the case of the NLSY and 1972–1975 in that of NELS). The picture we gain is consistent across all three: “downward” assimilation, as evidenced by intergenerational stagnation in education, is uncommon in both the second and the third generations of Mexican Americans. In general, the young members of each generation make a substantial advance beyond the educational attainments of their parents; this intergenerational differential, which averages more than two years even in the third generation, is substantially greater than that found among non-Hispanic whites. Paradoxically, however, even in the recent cohorts of the third generation, the educational attainment of Mexican Americans does not show signs of catching up with that of whites.
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Alba, Richard, Dalia Abdel-Hady, Tariqul Islam and Karen Marotz. "Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment" In: The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. R. Alba and M Waters, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2011: 95-109