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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 (2022) 59 (5): 1655–1681.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Hui Zheng; Wei-hsin Yu Abstract Much research has debated whether immigrants' health advantages over natives decline with their duration at destination. Most such research has relied on (pooled) cross-sectional data and used years since immigration as a proxy for the duration of residence, leading...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1517–1539.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Elyas Bakhtiari Abstract Immigrant populations typically have lower mortality rates and longer life expectancies than their nonimmigrant counterparts. This immigrant mortality advantage has been a recurrent finding in demographic and population health research focused on contemporary waves...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 665–686.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the hypothesis that immigrants suffer more from adverse life events than nonimmigrants in both the short and the long run. Relative to nonimmigrants, immigrants have a health advantage at younger ages, which becomes a disadvantage at older ages, and this faster decline at older ages is particularly steep among...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1039–1064.
Published: 29 November 2012
... men ages 50 and older according to their previous U.S. migration experience, and U.S.-born Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites. We also use height, a measure of health during childhood, to bolster some of our tests. We find an immigrant advantage relative to non-Hispanic whites in hypertension...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 241–265.
Published: 03 March 2011
... between these two groups. The foreign-born health advantage was most evident among the least-educated except among immigrants from Europe/Canada, who also reported the highest levels of disability among the foreign-born. Hispanic identification was associated with poorer health among both native-born...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2031–2043.
Published: 21 November 2016
...Michelle L. Frisco; Susana Quiros; Jennifer Van Hook Abstract Immigrants’ health (dis)advantages are increasingly recognized as not being uniform, leading to calls for studies investigating whether immigrant health outcomes are dependent on factors that exacerbate health risks. We answer this call...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1655–1685.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Silvia Loi; Joonas Pitkänen; Heta Moustgaard; Mikko Myrskylä; Pekka Martikainen Abstract Although the children of first-generation immigrants tend to have better health than the native population, the health advantage of the children of immigrant families deteriorates over generations...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1295–1320.
Published: 26 June 2015
...Elizabeth H. Baker; Michael S. Rendall; Margaret M. Weden Abstract According to the “immigrant epidemiological paradox,” immigrants and their children enjoy health advantages over their U.S.-born peers—advantages that diminish with greater acculturation. We investigated child obesity...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 337–360.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Heather Antecol; Kelly Bedard Abstract 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 effect...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 393–424.
Published: 25 January 2012
... advantages and disadvantages among Vietnamese immigrants relative to the two groups of Vietnamese nationals. Selection can be ruled out for some of these differences, and both social networks and physical health are found to play important explanatory roles. Alternatively—or in addition...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 425–436.
Published: 30 April 2011
...Miguel Ceballos Abstract A significant body of research on minority health shows that although Latino immigrants experience unexpectedly favorable outcomes in maternal and infant health, this advantage deteriorates with increased time of residence in the United States. This study evaluates...
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The demography of disability and the effects of immigrant history: Older Asians in the United States
Demography (2007) 44 (2): 251–263.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., as acculturation pro- cesses gradually wear away the advantages of positive health behaviors associated with the country of origin (see also discussions in Angel et al. 2001; Guendelman and English 1995; Hummer et al. 1999). The empirical literature on immigration and health-related outcomes suggests...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
Published: 15 November 2016
...Christina J. Diaz; Stephanie M. Koning; Ana P. Martinez-Donate Abstract Despite having lower levels of education and limited access to health care services, Mexican immigrants report better health outcomes than U.S.-born individuals. Research suggests that the Mexican health advantage may...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1109–1134.
Published: 06 July 2016
... in the 1990s further widened the distribution of origins among the foreign-born by supporting increased immigration from countries that had historically sent relatively few immigrants to the United States (Logan and Thomas 2012 ). Several studies have noted the significant mortality advantages of the U.S...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1631–1654.
Published: 01 October 2021
....-born counterparts, and their health advantage is at least partly attributable to positive selection effects ( Akresh and Frank 2008 ; Ichou and Wallace 2019 ; Landale et al. 2006 ; Riosmena et al. 2017 ; Wallace and Wilson 2019 ). Asian immigrants, in particular, have better health outcomes than...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1335–1357.
Published: 01 October 2023
... occurring at relatively young ages when examining return migration selection and its impact on the MMA or the immigrant health advantage ( Arenas et al. 2015 ; Riosmena et al. 2017 ). The impact of return migration selection effects on the MMA may be larger than previously suggested, especially in contexts...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 633–657.
Published: 01 June 2023
... ; Hummer et al. 2000 ; Markides and Coreil 1986 ). As this body of work matured, it became clear that not only was the Hispanic immigrant health and mortality advantage real ( Hummer et al. 2007 ; Turra and Elo 2008 ), but also that foreign-born individuals tended to exhibit better health (with some...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1075–1103.
Published: 18 March 2019
.... This trend is noteworthy because previous work has argued that immigrants’ lower smoking rates account for a substantial portion of their mortality advantage over native-born peers (Blue and Fenelon 2011 ). However, Time 1 same-generation friendships were not significantly related to the other Time 2 health...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1935–1956.
Published: 25 September 2018
.... Reporting differences may also contribute to the so-called immigrant health advantage (Riosmena et al. 2017 ). Cultural differences in the interpretation of self-assessed health questions (Viruell-Fuentes et al. 2011 ) and lower awareness of chronic conditions due to poor access to health care (e.g...
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