Quantifying Lifecourse Drivers of International Migration: A Cross-national Analysis of Mexico and the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating the long-term health consequences of migration requires longitudinal data on migrants and non-migrants to facilitate adjustment for time-varying confounder-mediators of the effect of migration on health.

Methods

We merged harmonized data on subjects aged 50+ from the US-based Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS). Our exposed group includes MHAS-return migrants (n = 1555) and HRS Mexican-born migrants (n = 924). Our unexposed group includes MHAS-never migrants (n = 16,954). We constructed a lifecourse data set from birth (age 0) until either age at migration to the United States or age at study entry. To account for confounding via inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW), we modeled the probability of mi

SUBMITTER: Zeki Al Hazzouri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7708448 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature