{"id":45790,"date":"2016-02-26T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45790"},"modified":"2017-07-14T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:41:53","slug":"latinos-may-be-more-educated-wealthier-heres-why-we-dont-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45790","title":{"rendered":"Latinos May Be More Educated, Wealthier: Here’s Why We Don’t Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latinos May Be More Educated, Wealthier: Here’s Why We Don’t Know It<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2016-02-24<\/p>\n

Griselda Nevarez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Latinos may be more educated and have higher earnings than what current numbers suggest, and new research explores why.<\/p>\n

There are individuals who have Latino ancestors, but do not self-identify as Hispanic in national demographic surveys. Therefore, these people are not included in the overall U.S. Latino population, according to Stephen Trejo<\/a>, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin who co-authored a research paper on the topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This phenomenon \u2014 often referred to as ethnic attrition \u2014 is more common among second- and higher-generation Latinos who also tend to be more educated and have higher earnings than their counterparts.<\/p>\n

As a result “we’re probably understating the educational progress” of Hispanics in the U.S., said Trejo to NBC News Latino. “Unfortunately, we don’t have a good idea of the magnitude of this because the data that we have isn’t perfect,” he added.<\/p>\n

While 99 percent of first-generation Latinos identify as such, it drops to 93 percent in the second generation and 82 percent in the third generation, according to Trejo’s findings. And second- and third-generation Latinos who did not identify as Hispanic were more educated than their peers – by an average of 9 months for the second generation and about 10 months for the third, the study found…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Latinos may be more educated and have higher earnings than what current numbers suggest, and new research explores why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8],"tags":[14639,23075,15127,9222,9223],"class_list":["post-45790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","tag-brian-duncan","tag-griselda-nevarez","tag-nbc-news","tag-stephen-j-trejo","tag-stephen-trejo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54495,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45790\/revisions\/54495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}