Does life in the U.S. take a toll on health? Duration of residence and birthweight among six decades of immigrants.

ABSTRACT: We use data from the 1998-2009 waves of the National Health Interview Survey to investigate cohort differences in low birthweight among U.S.-born children of mothers arriving in the U.S. between 1955 and 2009, cohort-adjusted patterns in low birthweight by maternal duration of residence in the U.S., and cohort-adjusted patterns in low birthweight by maternal duration of U.S. residence stratified by age at arrival and region of origin. We find a consistent deterioration in infant health with successive immigrant cohorts and heterogeneous effects of cohort-adjusted duration in the U.S. by age at arrival and region. Most notably, we found evidence that maternal health (as proxied by low birthweight) deteriorates with duration in the U.S. only for immigrant mothers who came to the U.S. as chil

SUBMITTER: Teitler J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11482511 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature