New evidence on the healthy immigrant effect

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• 作者：Lídia Farré
• 关键词：Immigration ; Selection ; Health and birth outcomes ; J15 ; J61 ; I14
• 刊名：Journal of Population Economics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：29
• 期：2
• 页码：365-394
• 全文大小：374 KB
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• 作者单位：Lídia Farré (1) (2) (3)
  
  1. Department of Economic Policy (GiM-IREA), Universitat de Barcelona, Carrer Keynes 1-11, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
  2. Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (IAE-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain
  3. IZA, Bonn, Germany
  
• 刊物主题：Population Economics; Labor Economics; Demography; Social Policy;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1475

文摘

This paper presents new evidence that immigrants have better health than natives upon arrival to their destination. It analyzes a very interesting episode in international migration, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians in the aftermath of the economic collapse in the late 1990s. More than 600,000 Ecuadorians from 1999 to 2005 left their homeland, most relocating in Spain. Using information from the birth certificate data, the paper compares the birth outcomes of immigrant women in Spain not only to that of natives at destination, but to that of natives in Ecuador and immigrants from other nationalities in Spain. These comparisons suggest that the better health at birth of children born to immigrants from Ecuador partly responds to the selection of healthier women into migration. Keywords Immigration Selection Health and birth outcomes