ArticleJournal of population economics2020
Ethnic attrition, assimilation, and the measured health outcomes of Mexican Americans.
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- The Latino health experience: Past and future.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Race and ethnicity dynamics in survival to 100 years in the United States.Journal of internal medicine · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in citizens from a disadvantaged neighborhood in Southern Sweden.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- "New White Ethnics" or "New Latinos"?: Hispanic/Latino Pan-Ethnicity and Ancestry Reporting among South American Immigrants to the United States.The International migration review · 2021Article
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Abstract
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 US-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 US-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 positively selected 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.
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