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several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
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significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did …
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
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improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …
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This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant … COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant issues under the lens of a health labor market. In particular, the … paper interprets this information and knowledge by focusing on the supply, demand, and mismatches in a health labor market …
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This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural …
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physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings indicate that workers with no written …/or threats in their present job experience worse physical health and increased levels of depression. The study found that the … without a job contract might experience a high degree of workplace precariousness and exclusion from health benefits and …
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Stress is associated with sleep problems. And poor sleep is linked with mental health and depression symptoms. The … stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have … documented a significant relationship between immigration policy and the physical and mental health of immigrants, we know little …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
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, 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 …
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