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. 2008 Aug;45(3):651–671. doi: 10.1353/dem.0.0023

Table 3.

Intergenerational Change and Convergence: Ratio-of-Ratios Estimates for 1885–1914 Origin Cohorts and Their Descendants

Birth Cohort	Hispanic			Mexican			White
Birth Cohort	First	Second	Third	First	Second	Third	First	Second	Third
Panel a. Estimated CEB
1885–1889	4.4	3.5	3.6^a	4.8	4.2	4.0^a	3.0	2.4	2.9^a
1890–1894	4.3	3.7^a	3.3	4.7	4.2^a	3.6	2.8	2.5^a	2.5
1895–1899	4.4	4.1^a	3.1	5.1	4.5^a	3.3	2.7	2.8^a	2.2
1900–1904	4.2	4.1^a	2.5	4.9	4.5^a	2.6	2.6	3.0^a	2.0
1905–1909	3.8	4.0^a	2.5	4.8	4.1^a	2.6	2.4	3.2^a	2.0
1910–1914	3.4	3.5^a	2.4	4.3	3.5^a	2.4	2.4	2.9^a	2.0

	Second/First	Third/Second	Second/First	Third Second	Second/First	Third/Second

Panel b. Ratio Across Generations
1885–1889	0.81	1.02^a	0.88	0.95^a	0.80	1.22^a
1890–1894	0.87^a	0.89	0.90^a	0.86	0.92^a	0.99
1895–1899	0.94^a	0.76	0.89^a	0.72	1.03^a	0.80
1900–1904	0.99^a	0.62	0.91^a	0.58	1.16^a	0.67
1905–1909	1.06^a	0.62	0.87^a	0.64	1.31^a	0.63
1910–1914	1.02^a	0.69	0.80^a	0.69	1.22^a	0.69

	Second/First	Third/Second	Second/First	Second Third/

Panel c. Ratio-of-Ratios Comparisons With Whites
1885–1889	1.02	0.84^a	1.11	0.78^a
1890–1894	0.95^a	0.91	0.99^a	0.87
1895–1899	0.91^a	0.95	0.86^a	0.90
1900–1904	0.86^a	0.92	0.78^a	0.87
1905–1909	0.80^a	0.99	0.66^a	1.02
1910–1914	0.84^a	1.00	0.66^a	0.99
Mean difference	0.90	0.93	0.84	0.91

^a

Cohorts of the baby boom generation.