@techreport{Antecol2004Unhealthy,
abstract = {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 effect?, with a particular focus on the
tendency of immigrants to converge to unhealthy American weight levels. Using data from
the National Health Interview Survey, we find that the average female and male immigrants
enter the U.S. approximately two and five percentage points lighter than native-born white
men and women, respectively. And, consistent with the declining health status of
immigrants the longer they remain in the United States, we also find that female immigrants
completely converge to American weights within ten years of arrival and men close a third
of the gap within fifteen years.},
author = {Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Migranten; Gesundheit; Sch\"{a}tzung; Vereinigte Staaten; K\"{o}rpergewicht},
language = {eng},
number = {04,06},
title = {Unhealthy Assimilation : Do Immigrants Converge to American Weights?},
type = {Working paper series / Claremont McKenna College},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23393},
year = {2004}
}

