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impact of federal assimilation policies on childhood mortality. We use children ever born and children surviving data … included in the censuses to estimate childhood mortality and [responses to] several questions unique to the Indian enumeration … by allotment] to construct multivariate models of child mortality. The results suggest that mortality among American …
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Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Sourcecountry patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico,strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the UnitedStates,...
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During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but experienced rapid convergence over time. In...
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Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of linked census records show that immigrants experienced...
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We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who returned to Norway held slightly lower-paid occupations...
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The national origin of an individual's human capital is a crucial determinant of its value. Education acquired abroad is significantly less valued than education obtained domestically. This difference can fully explain the earnings disadvantage of immigrants relative to comparable natives in...
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Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...
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private hospitals in Western Australia (WA) during the period 2000-2007. We can measure survival for a period as long as 8 …
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the government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia has much better data on drug utilization than most other …
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This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …. Reduced form regressions of mortality rates on tax data for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, and … unobserved persistence, indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in mortality. A 10% increase in …
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