counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this "healthy immigrant …It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American … the National Health Interview Survey, we find that the average female and male immigrants enter the U.S. with BMIs that …

. -- immigrant ; assimilation ; health … counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this "healthy immigrant …It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American …

counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this "healthy immigrant …It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American … the National Health Interview Survey, we find that the average female and male immigrants enter the U.S. with BMIs that …

We examine the extent to which assimilation and residential ethnic enclaves are associated with immigrant access to … they can protect immigrants from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the workplace and can help immigrant smokers … assimilation is positively associated with smoking-related fringe benefit access while enclave residence does not predict access. …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

-up and positive health effects for treated children over the life course. Beneficial health impacts are largest for … disadvantaged children and may even extend to their offspring. While initial trial cohorts experienced positive health and …

We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health …, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent health by applying principal components analysis to …-rank slope in health between adult children and their parents is 0.22 which is broadly in line with results from other countries …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …