, 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 …

Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act … this event. A decade after legalization, the share of Mexicans who are likely legal according to these variables shows …

We study how the health and health insurance coverage of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US. Cross … and fixed effects methods show that time in the US is unrelated to health insurance coverage. Both cross sectional and … longitudinal analyses provide evidence of unhealthy assimilation--self-reported health declines slightly with time in the US …

A strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and worse health-- the SES-health gradient-- has been … income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … that a middle aged person is in poor or fair health by about 15 percentage points in the U.S., compared to less than 8 …

health outcomes using two data sources: the National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) and the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS … health and maternal reports of the number of bed days in the past year (i.e. morbidity). The NIS data was used to examine the … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

insulated from the effects of local labor demand shocks compared to those in places with few Mexicans. The reallocation of the …

We examine how increasing the number of visas available to potential migrants would affect unauthorized immigration … potential Mexican migrants have an extremely low probability of ever being able to legally move to the U.S. We develop a dynamic … increase in permanent legalization without resulting in very large increases in the total stock of migrants residing in the U …