The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation
The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.3331
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Stella, Luca
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作者：
Giuntella, Osea;Stella, Luca
众所周知，移民往往比美国本土人更健康，这种优势随着在美国度过的时间而减弱。然而，我们知道的不多的异质性，这些轨迹之间的抵达队列。最近的研究表明，较晚抵达的移民群体的入职工资较低，经济同化程度较低。在本文中，我们调查是否可以观察到类似的队列效应在美国移民的体重同化。关注肥胖问题，我们发现，最近的移民群体具有更高的肥胖率，并且在体重增加方面经历了更快的不健康同化。版权所有（c）2016约翰威利父子有限公司
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. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.