Iversen, Tor; Ma, Albert; Meyer, Haakon E. - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010
We study Body Mass Index (BMI) changes among immigrants from Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam relative to … native Norwegians in Oslo. We test a symmetric convergence hypothesis: irrespective of whether an immigrant’s initial BMI is … lower or higher than a native Norwegian, acculturation should make the difference in BMI between an immigrant and a native …