Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2016
.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both …, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …, we find that the longer immigrants remain in the U.S., the less intergenerational persistence there is and the more …