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Selective Return Migration and the Maternal and Infant Health of the Mexican-Origin Population in the United States: A Sibling Analysis

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Ceballos, Miguel, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2010-17 Abstract A significant body of research on minority health shows that while Hispanic immigrants experience unexpectedly favorable outcomes in maternal and infant health, their advantage deteriorates with increased time of residence in the US. This is referred to as the “acculturation paradox.” We assess two hypotheses …

Estimation of Health Status Inequalities from Prevalence Data: A Risky Business

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Palloni, Alberto, and Jason R. Thomas Working paper no. 2011-09 Abstract Assessing the impact that socioeconomic determinants have on the prevalence of certain chronic conditions reported by respondents in population surveys must confront two problems. The first is that the self-reports could be in error (false positives and false negatives). The second is that those …

Female Education, Low Fertility, and Economic Development

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Palloni, Alberto, Beatriz Novak, and Laeticia Rodrigues de Souza Working paper no. 2012-03 Abstract We know surprisingly little about the long reach of changes in education and fertility, their intergenerational implications and the long term impact on human capital formation and aggregate economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to propose a simple framework …

Health in the U.S. at Young Ages: Preliminary Findings

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Palloni, Alberto, and James A. Yonker Working paper no. 2012-04 Abstract We review a broad set of health-related indicators—mortality, health outcomes, proximate health determinants, and distal health determinants—for the US and a comparison group of peer OECD countries. The principal findings are: (a) the US ranks consistently worse than peer countries on all but a …

Forecasting Effects of Smoking on Latin American Mortality

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Palloni, Alberto, Beatriz Novak, and Guido Pinto Working paper no. 2013-07

Subjective Survival Expectations and Observed Survival: How Consistent Are They?

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Novak, Beatriz, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2013-08

Why Are We Getting Worse? A Historical Accounting of Modern US Life Expectancy Disadvantage

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Palloni, Alberto, and James Yonker Working paper no. 2014-07

Income Inequality, Social Mobility and Mortality in the U.S.

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Palloni, Alberto, Sebastian Daza, Elizabeth Arias, and Ezekiel J. EmanuelWorking paper no. 2016-02 Abstract We test the conjecture that intergenerational social mobility is tightly linked to adult mortality even after accounting for income levels, income inequality, and indicators of social capital, health behaviors and levels of access to health services. We use a large dataset from …