| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21987 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21987 |
| Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as they Assimilate? | |
| Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel; Adriana D. Kugler | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-02-15 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers’ education decreases children’s weight and BMI for natives, while single motherhood increases weight and BMI for both native and immigrant children. Finally, we find that the longer immigrants remain in the U.S., the less intergenerational persistence there is and the more immigrants look like native children. Unfortunately, the more generations immigrant families remain in the U.S., the more children of immigrants resemble natives’ higher weights, higher BMI and increased propensity to suffer from asthma. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21987 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579661 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel,Adriana D. Kugler. Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as they Assimilate?. 2016. |
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| w21987.pdf（488KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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