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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 979–1007.
Published: 27 April 2018
...Philip Anglewicz; Mark VanLandingham; Lucinda Manda-Taylor; Hans-Peter Kohler Abstract Despite its importance in studies of migrant health, selectivity of migrants—also known as migration health selection —has seldom been examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This neglect is problematic because...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
Published: 15 November 2016
... be partially attributable to selective return migration among less healthy migrants—often referred to as “salmon bias.” Our study takes advantage of a rare opportunity to observe the health status of Mexican-origin males as they cross the Mexican border. To assess whether unhealthy migrants...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 425–447.
Published: 16 March 2012
... of smoking and heavy alcohol use compared with U.S.-born whites. We further investigate disability by period of arrival among FSU immigrants. Changes in Soviet emigration policies conceivably altered the level of health selectivity among émigrés. We find evidence that FSU immigrants who emigrated during...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
...Fernando Riosmena; Randall Kuhn; Warren C. Jochem Abstract Despite being newcomers, immigrants often exhibit better health relative to native-born populations in industrialized societies. We extend prior efforts to identify whether self-selection and/or protection explain this advantage. We examine...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1039–1064.
Published: 29 November 2012
...Fernando Riosmena; Rebeca Wong; Alberto Palloni Abstract In this article, we test for four potential explanations of the Hispanic Health Paradox (HHP): the “salmon bias,” emigration selection, and sociocultural protection originating in either destination or sending country. To reduce biases...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1315–1339.
Published: 12 April 2013
...Kasey S. Buckles; Joseph Price Abstract Previous research has found a positive relationship between marriage and infant health, but it is unclear whether this relationship is causal or a reflection of positive selection into marriage. We use multiple empirical approaches to address this issue...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 445–460.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Catherine E. Ross; John Mirowsky Abstract We refine the established association between education and health by distinguishing three aspects of a person s education (quantity, credential, and selectivity) and by examining the mechanisms through which they may correlate with health. Data are from...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2245–2267.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Janne Mikkonen; Hanna Remes; Heta Moustgaard; Pekka Martikainen Abstract This article reconsiders the role of social origin in health selection by examining whether parental education moderates the association between early health and educational attainment and whether health problems mediate...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of health enables us to gain more insights into processes of selection and the scarring of health. Employing nationally representative data for the Netherlands for the 1850–1940 period, we analyze the survival of roughly 36,000 boys and girls using Cox proportional hazard models, and the stature of more...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 587–615.
Published: 08 March 2018
... mothers subject to the reform may be explained by the fact that the reform facilitated the reentry of a negative health selection into the labor market. We argue that the sign of causal health effects should depend on the time horizon as follows: If maternity leave has a direct causal health effect...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1159–1173.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to the baseline survey for current migrants and for Mexican residents, as well as to control for the potential health selectivity of migrants, the results provide a clearer picture of the consequences of immigration for Mexican migrant health than have previous studies. Our findings demonstrate that current...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2053–2073.
Published: 01 August 2013
... for more than 25 years. This result may arise from a combination of processes operating over time, including health selection effects from variations in New Zealand’s immigration policy, the location of Pacific migrants within the social, political, and cultural environment of the host community...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 273–285.
Published: 01 May 1999
... into a seven-year difference in life expectancy at age 20 between those who never attend and those who attend more than once a week. Health selectivity is responsible for a portion of the religious attendance effect: People who do not attend church or religious services are also more likely to be unhealthy...
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in Comparing Cohort Survival in Good Health: A Research Note on Decomposing Sex Differentials in the United States
> Demography
Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 1 Overall cohort survival and health-adjusted cohort survival for two selected birth cohorts in the United States, cohorts 1931 and 1939 observed until 2019. Source: Authors' calculations based on data from the Gateway to Global Aging Data (2022) and Human Mortality Database (2022).
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in Simulating the Effects of Acculturation and Return Migration on the Maternal and Infant Health of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: A Research Note
> Demography
Published: 30 April 2011
Fig. 3 Simulation of individual and combined hypotheses of negative acculturation and poor health–selective return migration
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 425–436.
Published: 30 April 2011
...Fig. 3 Simulation of individual and combined hypotheses of negative acculturation and poor health–selective return migration ...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 233–257.
Published: 21 January 2015
...Elizabeth Nauman; Mark VanLandingham; Philip Anglewicz; Umaporn Patthavanit; Sureeporn Punpuing Abstract We investigate the impacts of rural-to-urban migration on the health of young adult migrants. A key methodological challenge involves the potentially confounding effects of selection...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1853–1868.
Published: 18 September 2015
... extensive interest by demographers in health-related selection, this has been a neglected area of study in the literature on U.S.-Mexico migration, and the few results to date have been contradictory and inconclusive. Using five self-reported health variables collected while migrants resided in the United...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 777–809.
Published: 30 April 2014
... of adulthood when health disparities are greatest—and analyze detailed data on residential mobility collected for the first time in the 2000 U.S. census. Residential mobility over a five-year period is frequent and selective, with some variation by race and gender. Even so, we found little evidence...
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in Social Patterning in Body Mass Index (BMI) Among Contemporary Immigrant Groups: The Emergence of a Gradient
> Demography
Published: 04 December 2012
Fig. 2 BMI-time in the U.S. gradient, by level of HDI. All regressions in Fig. 2 that generate predicted BMI values also control for age, time in the United States, health selection, and marital status. Source : NIS Data
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