The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope

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She chronicles the quests of young Indian Americans to find spouses with the close guidance of their parents, revealing the benefits of "assisted marriage, " an American adaptation of arranged marriage. But when he visited my grandmother, Concepción, at school, she felt ashamed of his farmer’s clothes and leather sandals.

Immigrant workers are also overrepresented among college professors, engineers, mathematicians, nurses, doctors and dentists, to name a few. Table 2 presents the log-odds coefficients from the discrete-time survival analysis using alternative indicators of nativity status.At many institutions, the economic model of the university relies on attracting international students. Immigrants smoke and drink less, breast-feed more, and their kids more often grow up with both parents. We thereby assess the extent to which differences among YSI groups indeed reflect over-time shifts in immigrants' mortality risk for immigrants relative to natives.

As I mulled it, though, I found something provocative about Ngoc’s example—the idea that some of the expenses I took for granted could, possibly, be lived without. She shows us the joy, and excitement, of savoring Vietnamese "monthly rice" meals delivered to her front door, hiring a tutor for her two young girls, and finding a powerful sense of community in a money-lending club she started with friends.Between them, he and Do recruited eighteen other families, all of them scrambling for a toehold in the new country. they might also result from the instability in the model estimates due to the collinearity among cohort of arrival, YSI, and survey year. Therefore, our analysis instead focuses on how respondents' mortality hazards change with the time elapsed since the survey. Despite our robust findings, we cannot examine the specific mechanisms behind immigrants' enduring and often increasing survival advantage because we have no time-varying information other than mortality.