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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival ("healthy immigrant effect"), but their health deteriorates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339662
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572021
This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … significant increases in health care use, although there is some evidence that DACA increased demand for mental health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845597
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131226
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival (healthy immigrant effect), but their health deteriorates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352246
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584619
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857013
This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … significant increases in health care use, although there is some evidence that DACA increased demand for mental health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873473
Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanic immigrants in the United States initially have better health … outcomes than natives. Paradoxically while second-generation immigrants assimilate socio-economically, their health … deteriorates. I show that a model of selection and intergenerational transmission of health reverses the apparent paradox …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793448
This paper studies the effects of assimilation on the health of Hispanics in the US. I exploit a unique dataset of … socio-economic gradient in health, third-generation children of second- generation intermarried Hispanic women are more … likely to have poor health at birth, even after I account for second-generation health at birth, employ only within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408836