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capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U … native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …
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that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and … spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents. …
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
In response to observed growing inequalities in income and other dimensions of well-being, including health, the OECD … different socioeconomic groups. This paper links health to the overall inclusive growth agenda. It assesses the two …-way relationship between health and socioeconomic factors. An empirical health production function is specified, using data from 35 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822310
capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U … native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999008
Using the National Health Interview Survey (1989–2011), we document the Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE)—immigrants are … in better health upon arrival in the United States than their native counterparts, but this health advantage erodes over … time—irrespective of the health measure, race/ethnicity, or gender. Further, most immigrant groups arrive lighter than …
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This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...
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This paper examines the role of peer effects in smoking behavior using data of middle and high school students in the United States. I present a random utility model that explicitly incorporates complementarity between individual and peer smokings. A Markov process model of smoking interactions...
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We explore the underlying causes and implications of the previously documented unhealthy Body Mass Index (BMI) assimilation of U.S. immigrants to native levels. Diet - measured by fat, carbohydrate, protein, and caloric intake - and exercise have mixed success in explaining the BMI convergence...
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