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This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011533
This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274677
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on … type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of health capitalʺ and an immigrant selection and adjustment model are …). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474146
This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137552
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on … type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of "health capital" and an immigrant selection and adjustment model are …). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317406
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on … Immigrants to Australia (panel I). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more … proficient in English, and living outside an immigrant ethnic enclave. Immigrant health is poorest for refugees and best for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214042
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages among immigrants in the United States. The dependent variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational choice economic model. A binomial logistic regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760225
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600