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Hispanic Older Adult Mortality in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the Hispanic Paradox

Joseph T. Lariscy, Robert A. Hummer, Mark D. Hayward
Demography (2015) 52 (1): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0357-y
Published: 31 December 2014
.... Documentation of Hispanic mortality is also essential for assessing whether the Hispanic paradox—the similarity in death rates between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites despite Hispanics’ socioeconomic disadvantage—characterizes all adult Hispanics or just some age, gender, nativity, or national-origin...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Hispanic</span> Older Adult Mortality in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the <span class="search-highlight">Hispanic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Paradox</span> View PDF for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Hispanic</span> Older Adult Mortality in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the <span class="search-highlight">Hispanic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Paradox</span>
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Evidence on the Hispanic paradox in the naïve logit model and measurement error–corrected model. NHIS-NDI data for the 1907–2014 birth cohort, observed at ages 72–92. The dashed-dot lines represent 95 % confidence intervals

Evidence on the Hispanic paradox in the naïve logit model and measurement e...

in The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates > Demography
Published: 01 November 2017
Fig. 6 Evidence on the Hispanic paradox in the naïve logit model and measurement error–corrected model. NHIS-NDI data for the 1907–2014 birth cohort, observed at ages 72–92. The dashed-dot lines represent 95 % confidence intervals More
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SES Gradients Among Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico: A New Twist to the Hispanic Paradox?

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Alberto Palloni, Fernando Riosmena, Rebeca Wong
Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1555–1581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0508-4
Published: 21 September 2016
...Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez; Alberto Palloni; Fernando Riosmena; Rebeca Wong Abstract Recent empirical findings have suggested the existence of a twist in the Hispanic paradox, in which Mexican and other Hispanic foreign-born migrants living in the United States experience shallower socioeconomic status...
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View articletitled, SES Gradients Among Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico: A New Twist to the <span class="search-highlight">Hispanic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Paradox</span>? View PDF for article titled, SES Gradients Among Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico: A New Twist to the <span class="search-highlight">Hispanic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Paradox</span>?
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Paradox lost: Explaining the hispanic adult mortality advantage

Alberto Palloni, Elizabeth Arias
Demography (2004) 41 (3): 385–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2004.0024
Published: 01 August 2004
...Alberto Palloni; Elizabeth Arias Abstract We tested three competing hypotheses regarding the adult “Hispanic mortality paradox”: data artifact, migration, and cultural or social buffering effects. On the basis of a series of parametric hazard models estimated on nine years of mortality follow-up...
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Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States

Joseph T. Lariscy, Claudia Nau, Glenn Firebaugh, Robert A. Hummer
Demography (2016) 53 (1): 215–239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0450-x
Published: 18 December 2015
... whites than Hispanics. Thus, the Hispanic paradox—that a socioeconomically disadvantaged population (Hispanics) enjoys a mortality advantage over a socioeconomically advantaged population (whites)—pertains to lifespan variability as well as to life expectancy. Efforts to reduce U.S. lifespan variability...
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The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates

Dan A. Black, Yu-Chieh Hsu, Seth G. Sanders, Lynne Steuerle Schofield, Lowell J. Taylor
Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2001–2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0623-x
Published: 01 November 2017
...Fig. 6 Evidence on the Hispanic paradox in the naïve logit model and measurement error–corrected model. NHIS-NDI data for the 1907–2014 birth cohort, observed at ages 72–92. The dashed-dot lines represent 95 % confidence intervals ...
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Biodemography: New approaches to understanding trends and differences in population health and mortality

Eileen Crimmins, Jung Ki Kim, Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn
Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S41–S64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2010.0005
Published: 01 March 2010
.... ( 2007 ). Hispanic Paradox in Biological Risk Profiles . American Journal of Public Health , 97 , 1305 – 10 . 10.2105/AJPH.2006.091892 Crimmins E. , Kim J.K. , &amp; Seeman T. ( 2009 ). Poverty and Biological Risk: The Earlier ‘Aging’ of the Poor . Journals of Gerontology...
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Paradox Revisited: A Further Investigation of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Infant Mortality by Maternal Age

Daniel A. Powers
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 495–520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0152-6
Published: 10 October 2012
...Daniel A. Powers Abstract I reexamine the epidemiological paradox of lower overall infant mortality rates in the Mexican-origin population relative to U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites using the 1995–2002 U.S. NCHS linked cohort birth-infant death files. A comparison of infant mortality rates among U.S...
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Paradox found (again): Infant mortality among the Mexican-origin population in the united states

Robert A. Hummer, Daniel A. Powers, Starling G. Pullum, Ginger L. Gossman, W. Parker Frisbie
Demography (2007) 44 (3): 441–457.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0028
Published: 01 August 2007
... with the definition of the epidemiologic paradox as originally proposed by Markides and Coreil (1986). 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Infant Mortality Infant Death Immigrant Woman Mexican American Woman Hispanic Paradox References Abraido-Lanza A.F...
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Migration Selection, Protection, and Acculturation in Health: A Binational Perspective on Older Adults

Fernando Riosmena, Rebeca Wong, Alberto Palloni
Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1039–1064.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0178-9
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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Exposure to Family Member Deaths Across the Life Course for Hispanic Individuals

Rachel Donnelly, Michael A. Garcia, Hyungmin Cha, Robert A. Hummer, Debra Umberson
Demography (2023) 60 (2): 539–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10604036
Published: 01 April 2023
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Race/ethnicity Hispanic paradox Exposure to family member death Mortality Robust, persistent, and well-documented disparities in mortality rates between Black and White Americans fuel racial inequities in bereavement exposures in the United...
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Moving Beyond Salmon Bias: Mexican Return Migration and Health Selection

Christina J. Diaz, Stephanie M. Koning, Ana P. Martinez-Donate
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0526-2
Published: 15 November 2016
... 2013 ), older age groups (Elo et al. 2004 ; Lariscy et al. 2015 ), and Mexican-origin populations (Hummer et al. 2000 ; Palloni and Arias 2004 ). Given the relatively disadvantaged SES profile of Hispanic immigrants, these health patterns are largely considered paradoxical. A number...
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Disability Among Native-born and Foreign-born Blacks in the United States

Irma T. Elo, Neil K. Mehta, Cheng Huang
Demography (2011) 48 (1): 241–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-010-0008-x
Published: 03 March 2011
... States. Traditionally, most research on racial/ethnic health differences has focused on blacks and whites, with a more recent interest in Hispanic health and the Hispanic health paradox: the better-than-expected health outcomes among Hispanics given their low average socioeconomic status (SES) (Franzini...
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Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations

Hui Zheng, Wei-hsin Yu
Demography (2025) 62 (2): 707–736.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11868456
Published: 01 April 2025
... explains little of the immigrant morbidity–mortality paradox. Recent studies indicate that despite their lower mortality level, older Hispanic immigrants have higher disability and physiological dysregulation levels than natives ( Boen and Hummer 2019 ; Hayward et al. 2014 ; Sheftel and Heiland...
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Life Expectancy Among U.S.-born and Foreign-born Older Adults in the United States: Estimates From Linked Social Security and Medicare Data

Neil K. Mehta, Irma T. Elo, Michal Engelman, Diane S. Lauderdale, Bert M. Kestenbaum
Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1109–1134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0488-4
Published: 06 July 2016
.... ( 2012 ). Does selective migration explain the Hispanic paradox? A comparative analysis of Mexicans in the U.S. and Mexico . Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health , 15 , 624 – 635 . 10.1007/s10903-012-9646-y Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services . ( 2007 ). Health care financing...
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The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century

Elyas Bakhtiari
Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1517–1539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10111916
Published: 01 August 2022
.... , &amp; Kupelnick B. ( 2009 ). Pregnancy outcome of migrant women and integration policy: A systematic review of the international literature . Social Science &amp; Medicine , 68 , 452 – 461 . Bostean G. ( 2012 ). Does selective migration explain the Hispanic paradox? A comparative analysis...
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Race and Ethnicity, Racism, and Population Health in the United States: The Straightforward, the Complex, Innovations, and the Future

Robert A. Hummer
Demography (2023) 60 (3): 633–657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10747542
Published: 01 June 2023
... – 1983 . Franzini L. , Ribble J. C. , &amp; Keddie A. M. ( 2001 ). Understanding the Hispanic paradox . Ethnicity &amp; Disease , 11 , 496 – 518 . Frisbie W. P. , Cho Y. , &amp; Hummer R. A. ( 2001 ). Immigration and the health of Asian and Pacific...
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Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-selection and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States

Fernando Riosmena, Randall Kuhn, Warren C. Jochem
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0542-2
Published: 13 January 2017
... , A. , &amp; Seeman , T. ( 2007 ). Hispanic paradox in biological risk profiles . American Journal of Public Health , 97 , 1305 – 1310 . 10.2105/AJPH.2006.091892 . Crimmins , E. M. , Soldo , B. J. , Kim , J. K. , &amp; Alley , D. E. ( 2005 ). Using anthropometric indicators...
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Understanding the “Russian Mortality Paradox” in Central Asia: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Michel Guillot, Natalia Gavrilova, Tetyana Pudrovska
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1081–1104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0036-1
Published: 27 May 2011
... : Nauka . Franzini L. , Ribble J. C. , &amp; Keddie A. M. ( 2001 ). Understanding the Hispanic paradox . Ethnicity and Disease , 11 , 496 – 518 . Gavrilova N. S. , Gavrilov L. A. , Semyonova V. G. , Evdokushkina G. N. , &amp; Ivanova A. E. ( 2005...
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Contextualizing Educational Disparities in Health: Variations by Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and County-Level Characteristics

Taylor W. Hargrove, Lauren Gaydosh, Alexis C. Dennis
Demography (2022) 59 (1): 267–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9664206
Published: 01 February 2022
.... ( 2016 ). SES gradients among Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico: A new twist to the Hispanic paradox? Demography , 53 , 1555 – 1581 Billy J. O. G. , Wenzlow A. T. , &amp; Grady W. R. ( 1998 ). National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: Public use contextual...
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