Arbeitspapier
The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation
It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. 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 US. 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9664
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Health: General
- Thema
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health assimilation
healthy immigrant effect
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Giuntella, Osea
Stella, Luca
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Giuntella, Osea
- Stella, Luca
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2016