PARADOX LOST: EXPLAINING THE HISPANIC ADULT MORTALITY ADVANTAGE*

From: Demography | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Palloni, Alberto; Arias, Elizabeth | Copyright information

We tested three competing hypotheses regarding the adult "Hispanic mortality paradox": data artifact, migration, and cultural or social buffering effects. On the basis of a series of parametric hazard models estimated on nine years of mortality follow-up data, our results suggest that the "Hispanic" mortality advantage is a feature found only among foreign-born Mexicans and foreignborn Hispanics other than Cubans or Puerto Ricans. Our analysis suggests that the foreign-born Mexican advantage ...

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