the factors which are associated with ill health, as well as those which promote positive health and well being. …

persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral …Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second …-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and …