, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U …, is sizable and selective on health, making subsequent generations of Mexican immigrants appear less healthy than they … actually are. Consequently, conventional estimates of health disparities between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites as …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

A large literature has documented links between harmful early life exposures and later life health and socioeconomic … educational, economic, and health outcomes …