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 …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …