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 …

strongest in the first generation and becomes weaker for generation 1.5 (migrants arriving as children) and the second …

It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American … counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this healthy immigrant … from the National Health Interview Survey, we find that the average female and male immigrants enter the U.S. approximately …

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 …