Erin Hamilton
Jodi Berger Cardoso
Robert Hummer
Yolanda C. Padilla

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/25/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.25

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Abstract

This article shows that the prevalence of four common child health conditions increases across generations (from first-generation immigrant children to second-generation U.S.-born children of immigrants to third-and-higher-generation children) within each of four major U.S. racial/ethnic groups. In the third-plus generation, black and Hispanic children have higher rates of nearly all conditions. Health care, socioeconomic status, parents’ health, social support, and neighborhood conditions influence child health and help explain third-and-higher-generation racial/ethnic disparities. However, these factors do not explain the generational pattern. The generational pattern may reflect cohort changes, selective ethnic attrition, unhealthy assimilation, or changing responses to survey questions among immigrant groups.

Author's affiliation
Erin Hamilton
University of California at Davis, United States of America
Jodi Berger Cardoso
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Robert Hummer
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Yolanda C. Padilla
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Keywords
assimilation, child health, disparities, immigration, race/ethnicity

Word count (Main text)
8945

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