Table 3.

Mexican generational differences in educational outcomes, relative to 3rd-plus generation whites


Indepdendent Variables:	High School Graduation²						College Prep Coursework¹
	(1)		(2)		(3)		(1)		(2)		(3)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Generation 1	−0.79	0.27 ^**	0.29	0.34	0.08	0.35	−0.32	0.25	0.55	0.25 ^*	0.44	0.25 ⁺
Generation 2	−0.69	0.23 ^**	0.10	0.24	0.13	0.25	−0.55	0.19 ^**	0.04	0.20	0.08	0.18
Generation 3	−0.60	0.19 ^**	−0.25	0.20	−0.18	0.22	−0.58	0.14 ^***	−0.31	0.13 ^*	−0.30	0.13 ^*
Age			0.08	0.02 ^***	0.16	0.03 ^***			0.01	0.02	0.05	0.02 ^*
Female			0.36	0.08 ^***	0.26	0.08 ^***			0.32	0.05 ^***	0.27	0.04 ^***
Single-parent family			−0.66	0.12 ^***	−0.49	0.13 ^***			−0.36	0.05 ^***	−0.25	0.05 ^***
Step-parent family			−0.44	0.11 ^***	−0.38	0.11 ^***			−0.23	0.07 ^***	−0.20	0.06 ^**
Family income			0.09	0.05 ⁺	0.09	0.05 ^*			0.06	0.02 ^*	0.06	0.02 ^*
Parent Interview Missing			−0.10	0.15	−0.01	0.15			−0.10	0.08	−0.05	0.08
Avg parental education			0.24	0.03 ^***	0.23	0.02 ^***			0.17	0.01 ^***	0.16	0.01 ^***
Attitudes Scale					0.07	0.01 ^***					0.04	0.00 ^***
Rarely skips school					0.79	0.09 ^***					0.43	0.06 ^***
Constant	1.57	0.08 ^***	−3.67	0.66 ^***	−7.49	0.79 ^***	2.61	0.05 ^***	−0.50	0.47	−2.63	0.47 ^***
N	7902		7902		7902		6493		6493		6493
R2/Pseudo R2	0.01		0.07		0.12		0.01		0.12		0.17
Mexican Generational Differences									^a, ^c		^a, ^c

Indepdendent Variables:	College Enrollment²						GPA¹
	(1)		(2)		(3)		(1)		(2)		(3)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Generation 1	−1.09	0.24 ^***	0.60	0.31 ^*	0.48	0.32	−0.30	0.13 ^*	0.30	0.13 ^*	0.23	0.15
Generation 2	−0.52	0.21 ^*	0.78	0.21 ^***	0.83	0.21 ^***	−0.42	0.08 ^***	−0.01	0.09	0.02	0.09
Generation 3	−0.72	0.17 ^***	−0.27	0.17	−0.23	0.18	−0.45	0.08 ^***	−0.26	0.07 ^***	−0.25	0.07 ^***
Age			0.06	0.02 ^*	0.11	0.02 ^***			−0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Female			0.48	0.07 ^***	0.42	0.07 ^***			0.37	0.03 ^***	0.34	0.03 ^***
Single-parent family			−0.71	0.09 ^***	−0.59	0.09 ^***			−0.30	0.04 ^***	−0.22	0.03 ^***
Step-parent family			−0.70	0.11 ^***	−0.68	0.11 ^***			−0.18	0.04 ^***	−0.15	0.04 ^***
Family income			0.15	0.06 ^**	0.16	0.05 ^**			0.03	0.02 ⁺	0.04	0.02 ⁺
Income imputed			−0.12	0.12	−0.04	0.11			−0.12	0.05 ^*	−0.07	0.05
Avg parental education			0.40	0.02 ^***	0.40	0.02 ^***			0.11	0.01 ^***	0.11	0.01 ^***
Attitudes Scale					0.06	0.01 ^***					0.03	0.00 ^***
Rarely skips school					0.57	0.09 ^***					0.31	0.04 ^***
Constant	0.56	0.08 ^***	−7.11	0.69 ^***	−10.19	0.76 ^***	2.42	0.03 ^***	0.69	0.29 ^*	−0.98	0.27 ^***
N	7902		7902		7902		6515		6515		6515
R2/Pseudo R2	0.01		0.15		0.18		0.02		0.17		0.24
Mexican Generational Differences			^a, ^c		^a, ^c				^a, ^b, ^c		^a, ^c

OLS coefficients

Logistic regression coefficients

First and third generations significantly different

First and second generations significantly different

Second and third generations significantly different

Statistical Significance:

⁺

p<0.1

p< .05

^**

p< .01

^***

p<.001