The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation

Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella*

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivista

14 Citazioni (Scopus)

Abstract

It is well known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the USA. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories among arrival cohorts. Recent studies have shown that later arrival cohorts of immigrants have lower entry wages and experience less economic assimilation. In this paper, we investigate whether similar cohort effects can be observed in the weight assimilation of immigrants in the USA. Focusing on obesity, we show that more recent immigrant cohorts arrive with higher obesity rates and experience a faster ‘unhealthy assimilation’ in terms of weight gain.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)511-518
Numero di pagine8
RivistaHealth Economics
Numero di pubblicazioneN/A
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2017
Pubblicato esternamente

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

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Keywords

  • assimilation
  • healthy immigrant effect
  • obesity

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