title: The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation.
abstract: It is well known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the USA. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories among arrival cohorts. Recent studies have shown that later arrival cohorts of immigrants have lower entry wages and experience less economic assimilation. In this paper, we investigate whether similar cohort effects can be observed in the weight assimilation of immigrants in the USA. Focusing on obesity, we show that more recent immigrant cohorts arrive with higher obesity rates and experience a faster 'unhealthy assimilation' in terms of weight gain. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.|IZA, Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Osea
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Giuntella
authors.affiliation: IZA, Bonn, Germany.|Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stella
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: assimilation; healthy immigrant effect; obesity