Table 1.

Mexican generational differences in attitudes and behaviors, relative to 3rd-plus generation whites


	Attitude toward School¹				Maximum effort at schoolwork				Rarely skips school²
	(1)		(2)		(1)		(2)		(1)		(2)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Generation 1	1.47	0.47 ^**	2.29	0.48 ^***	0.38	0.18 ^*	0.56	0.22 ^*	−0.37	0.26	0.32	0.28
Generation 2	0.13	0.39	0.60	0.41	0.30	0.16 ⁺	0.31	0.20	−0.69	0.24 ^**	−0.47	0.23 ^*
Generation 3	−0.46	0.39	−0.20	0.38	0.30	0.21	0.31	0.20	−0.33	0.16 ^*	−0.30	0.15 ^*
Age			−0.21	0.05 ^***			−0.22	0.02 ^***			−0.42	0.03 ^***
Female			0.70	0.16 ^***			0.33	0.07 ^***			0.34	0.07 ^***
Single-parent family			−1.53	0.15 ^***			−0.22	0.07 ^**			−0.66	0.08 ^***
Step-parent family			−0.69	0.18 ^***			−0.16	0.09 ⁺			−0.34	0.11 ^**
Family income			−0.08	0.06			−0.05	0.02 ^*			0.04	0.04
Income imputed			−0.44	0.25 ⁺			−0.24	0.12 ⁺			−0.36	0.10 ^***
Avg parental education			0.16	0.03 ^***			0.01	0.02			0.09	0.02 ^***
Constant	30.50	0.12 ^***	32.69	1.15 ^***	−0.60	0.06 ^***	3.26	0.56 ^***	1.44	0.08 ^***	6.87	0.73 ^***
N	10198		10198		7775		7775		10196		10196
R2/Pseudo R2	0.002		0.035		0.001		0.037		0.004		0.118
Mexican Generational Differences	^a, ^b		^a, ^b								^a, ^b

OLS coefficients

Logistic regression coefficients

First and third generations different at the .05 level

First and second generations different at the .05 level

Second and third generations different at the .05 level

Statistical Significance:

⁺

p<0.1

p< .05

^**

p< .01

^***

p<.001