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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … host country, converging to the health of natives or becoming even worse. A deeper understanding of immigrant health …

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career …

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Effects of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Multiple clinical Indicators

Banerjee, Souvik; Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal - CESifo - 2013

In this paper, we estimate the effect of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes using a structural equation model with a latent index for mental illness, an approach that acknowledges the continuous nature of psychiatric disability. We also address the potential endogeneity of mental...

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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories : Socioeconomic Status and Diets

Carson, Scott A. - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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The Trend of BMI Values Among US Adults

Komlos, John - 2010

Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects.Object: To estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by...

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Obesity in Black and White : Accounting for 19th Century US BMI Differences by Socioeconomic Status and Biology

Carson, Scott A. - 2021

Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs...

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