Changes in income inequality and the health of immigrants |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 245 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA;2. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA;1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; EUFOREA;2. Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Division of ENT Diseases, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; EUFOREA;3. MACVIA-France, Contre les Maladies Chroniques pour un Vieillissement Actif en France, European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Reference Site, Montpellier, France; INSERM U 1168, VIMA: Ageing and Chronic Diseases Epidemiological and Public Health Approaches, Villejuif, France; Université Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, UMR-S 1168, Montigny le Bretonneux, France; EUFOREA;4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; EUFOREA;5. EUFOREA;6. Faculty of Medicine, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania;1. Ohio State University, 238 Townshend Hall, Columbus, OH 43210, USA;2. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA;1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said 42521, Egypt;2. Centre for Theoretical Physics, The British University in Egypt (BUE), El-Shorouk City, Cairo, Egypt;3. Physics Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia;4. Theoretical Physics Group, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta 34517, Egypt;5. Department of Physics, College of Science and Humanitarian Studies, Sattam Bin Abdul Aziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia;1. School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois;2. School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana;3. Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts |
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| Abstract: | Research suggests that income inequality is inversely associated with health. This association has been documented in studies that utilize variation in income inequality across countries or across time from a single country. The primary criticism of these approaches is their inability to account for potential confounders that are associated with income inequality. This paper uses variation in individual experiences of income inequality among immigrants within the United States (U.S.) to evaluate whether individuals who moved from countries with greater income inequality than the U.S. have better health than those who migrated from countries with less income in equality than the U.S. Utilizing individual-level (March Current Population Survey) and country-level data (the United Nations Human Development Reports), we show that among immigrants who have resided in the U.S. between 6 and 20 years, self-reported health is more favorable for the immigrants in the former category (i.e., greater income inequality) than those in the latter (i.e., lower income inequality). Results also show that self-reported health is better among immigrants from more developed countries and those who have more years of education, are male, and are married. |
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