Tag: Stephen Trejo

  • U.S. Latinos may be more educated and have higher earnings than what current numbers suggest, and new research explores why.

  • The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts Working Paper No. 21982 February 2016 58 pages DOI: 10.3386/w21982 Brian Duncan, Professor of Economics University of Colorado Stephen J. Trejo, Professor of Economics University of Texas, Austin Because of data limitations, virtually…

  • Mixed marriages are changing the way we think about our race The Washington Post 2016-02-17 Jeff Guo For all the talk about immigrants refusing to embrace American ways — a defining controversy of this GOP presidential race — the evidence has been scant. The National Academies of Sciences deflated most of the myths in a…

  • Why Latinos won’t become white Al Jazeera America 2014-10-22 Gabriel Arana Assuming Latinos will join the white majority ignores the stark divisions in a racially diverse group In the lead-up to the midterms, President Barack Obama has been parroting the conventional wisdom about the GOP’s future: Republicans are doomed if they keep up their opposition…

  • The future of Hispanic identity Reuters 2013-05-06 Reihan Salam, Policy Analyst In an interview with ABC News this past weekend, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and a veteran of the Clinton White House, shared his thoughts on Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas who has been gaining prominence as a staunch,…

  • For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15…