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Intergenerational persistence of health in the US : do immigrants get healthier as they assimilate?
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2016
, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating ….S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both …
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Doctor who? The effect of physician-patient match on the SES-health gradient
Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Sheng, Yanying - 2022
We investigate whether primary care physician and patient concordance in terms of socio-economic status (SES) reduces the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases low-SES patients' mortality, while high-SES patients'...
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Child height and intergenerational transmission of health : evidence from ethnic Indians in England
Alacevich, Caterina; Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523433
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Intergenerational persistence of health : do immigrants get healthier as they remain in the U.S. for more generations?
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: Economics and human biology 23 (2016), pp. 134-148
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Mobile applications aiming to facilitate immigrants’ societal integration and overall level of integration, health and mental health. Does artificial intelligence enhance outcomes?...
Drydakis, Nick - 2020
associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants’ societal integration (m … and voice assistants, public services, and medical services provide the highest returns on immigrants’ level of … intelligence (AI) are associated with increased health/mental health and integration levels among immigrants. We indicate that AI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321892
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The relationship between early-life conditions in the home country and adult outcomes among child immigrants in the United States
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2020
We examine the impact of health and economic conditions at birth on the adult outcomes of child immigrants using the … Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Our sample consists of children from 39 countries who were brought to the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266883
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Mobile applications aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration and overall level of integration, health and mental health : does artificial intelligence enhance outcomes...
Drydakis, Nick - 2020
associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants’ societal integration (m … and voice assistants, public services, and medical services provide the highest returns on immigrants’ level of … intelligence (AI) are associated with increased health/mental health and integration levels among immigrants. We indicate that AI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389524
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Origin country conflict and immigrant physical health
Compton, Ryan A.; Craig, Andrea N.; Heger, Dörte; … - 2024
health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501267
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Is it the family or the neighborhood? : evidence from sibling and neighbor correlations in youth education and health
Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014 - This version: December 2014
In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom
B, Panka; Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2021
We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the rank-rank slope and the intergenerational health association (IHA) are 0.21. We use components of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244277