| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26742 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26742 |
| Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans | |
| Francisca M. Antman; Brian Duncan; Stephen J. Trejo | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-02-10 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to explain these patterns, almost all studies rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification to identify immigrants’ descendants. This can lead to bias due to “ethnic attrition,” which occurs whenever a U.S.-born descendant of a Hispanic immigrant fails to self-identify as Hispanic. In this paper, we exploit information on parents’ and grandparents’ place of birth to show that Mexican ethnic attrition, operating through intermarriage, is sizable and selective on health, making subsequent generations of Mexican immigrants appear less healthy than they actually are. Consequently, conventional estimates of health disparities between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites as well as those between Mexican Americans and recent Mexican immigrants have been significantly overstated. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26742 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584416 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francisca M. Antman,Brian Duncan,Stephen J. Trejo. Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans. 2020. |
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| w26742.pdf（338KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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