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Title: Household Living Arrangements and Economic Resources among Mexican Immigrant Families with Children

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Using data from the 2000 Census, this study examines the relationship between householdliving arrangements and economic resources among Mexican immigrant families with children. Imodel separately the relationships between family income and household structure and proportion oftotal household income contributed and household structure. The results show that families thatcoreside with extended kin and non-kin have higher incomes, all else equal, relative to those thatreside in single-family households. In addition, Mexican immigrant families that reside in extendedhouseholdliving arrangements contribute about three quarters of total household income. Whilefamilies may gain some economic efficiency through extended household living arrangements, theresults are consistent with expectations that Mexican immigrant families expend scarce resources insupport of the migration and settlement of extended kin. The Mexican delayed assimilation thesissuggests such support inadvertently diverts resources away from immigrant children and slowsintergenerational progress.

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Authors: Leach, Mark A.

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Publication Number: 2010-10

Institution: University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research

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Publisher Location: Lexington, KY

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States