August 23, 2006 9:59AM # New at Cato Unbound: Stephen Trejo on the Intergenerational Assimilation of Mexican Americans By [Will Wilkinson](https://www.cato.org/people/will-wilkinson) --- SHARE How well are Mexican immigrants and their offspring assimilating? In his contribution to this month’s discussion at *Cato Unbound*, University of Texas economist Stephen J. Trejo[ lays out the latest findings](http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/08/22/stephen-j-trejo/the-intergenerational-assimilation-of-mexican-americans/). According to Trejo: > Mexican Americans are not too far off the path of intergenerational assimilation traveled by previous waves of European immigrants. During their first few generations in the United States, Mexican-American families experience substantial economic and social mobility, and their actual progress is probably even greater than what we see in available data. However, a slow rate of educational attainment remains a “critical problem” that may delay the full integration of Mexican Americans. But, Trejo says, the evidence suggests that Mexican Americans will eventually assimilate as fully as the once-disdained Italian Americans. ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).