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The figure shows that in the absolute sense, the immigrant survival advantage over natives amplified for all subgroups, especially for Black and Asian men and Asian and Hispanic women. The NHIS supplies information on the time of birth, interview, and death by quarter-year, allowing us to compute the time exposed to mortality risk (i. If the mortality gap between, say, the 10–14 YSI group and the 0–4 YSI group results from the former's unhealthy assimilation during their extra 10 years in the country, the survival advantage of the 0–4 YSI group compared with the native-born should have shrunk after their U.But as the circuits light up, they also form an intangible buffer against some of the risks that come with being an immigrant. Our results suggest that immigrants' initially greater health endowment and better health behaviors, along with increased economic assimilation and improved access to health care with time, ultimately offset any unhealthy assimilation and amplify their survival advantage over natives in the long run. Instead they chatter about pleasures: favorite old foods and places in Vietnam, or the entertainment at their upcoming New Year’s celebration here at Kim Son. Because longitudinal studies tend to use self-rated health as the outcome, the changes they observed may reflect shifts in immigrants' awareness of health problems.

A cognitive defect that I suffer from, but which I don’t think has been named yet, is a bias toward reading only newly published books. Until recently, Western scholars wrote about huis and other rotating credit groups with a certain dismissiveness. For the next four years, I freelanced all over Central America and the Caribbean, stitching together assignments from the Chronicle, The Economist, The Boston Globe, and a half dozen others.Although this finding can be a joint product of an age-of-arrival effect and a duration effect, the fact that health behaviors barely explain mortality differences among those who migrated at varying ages suggests that the differences are more likely due to age-based migration selection than to unhealthy assimilation ( Angel et al. Immigrants' improved health care access with longer residence may increase the diagnoses of preexisting conditions (e. Conceptually, although immigrants face an initial disadvantage in health care access ( Laroche 2000; Leclere et al.