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Title: Does Ethnic Capital Matter? Identifying Peer Effects in the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Differentials

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: An instrumental variables strategy is employed to determine whether the observedassociation between individual human capital and average skills in ethnic groups (ethniccapital), even after conditioning on parental skills, is due to ethnic peer effects. Theinstrument for ethnic capital is derived from the occupational mix of US immigrantsarrived in the 1900s and 1910s, while fathers age at arrival instruments for parentalskills. Using US Census data on adult literacy in English and childrens schoolattendance, I find evidence of a persistent ethnic capital effect. High geographicconcentration and high endogamy rates tend to accentuate this effect.

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Authors: Leon, Alexis

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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