The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope

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The Immigrant Advantage also covers why a poor community in Chicago has lower asthma rates than one would expect, given the demographic profile of the residents. Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? In addition to presenting results in log-odds coefficients, we also calculate predicted hazard probabilities over elapsed time from the survival analysis.

Like its Jewish counterpart, this desert custom dovetails beautifully with Americans’ reawakened interest in sustainability and the environment. The data set nevertheless identifies 47,161 native-born and 15,169 immigrant respondents without eligible death records (i. Plotting visas and migrant apprehensions as a share of the nation’s working-age population, reinforces the point that immigration is slowing in both absolute and relative terms. g., age 50), immigrants who migrated during childhood or adolescence have worse health than those who migrated in young adulthood or later life ( Choi 2012; Gubernskaya 2015).Taken together, these customs also illuminate a riddle that epidemiologists have studied for decades. These numbers appear to suggest that immigrants have a survival advantage and that this advantage diminishes with the duration of residence. Relatively few cross-sectional studies have recognized that the duration-of-residence effect can also be confounded with the age-of-arrival effect. To add evidence on the durability of health protection for immigrants, we utilize an unusually large data set containing a general adult population and a sizable number of immigrants.

Given the difficulties cross-sectional analyses face, a handful of studies have started using longitudinal data that follow immigrants over time ( Choi 2012; Wakabayashi 2010). Do you know eleven people you’d trust with half your earnings each month, sure they would hand it back the instant you asked? They found that among Mexican-origin immigrants aged 65 or older, those who arrived after age 50 had lower mortality than those who arrived in childhood or midlife.

Whereas child immigrants tend to arrive via their parents, young adult immigrants move primarily for personal aspirations and job opportunities, the pursuit of which requires them to be relatively healthy. And, indeed, Muhammad Yunus borrowed from the revolving loan tradition in developing the Grameen Bank, insisting that its microloans would more likely be repaid if guaranteed by a peer group.