Giuntella Osea
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
SSM Popul Health. 2016 Mar 7;2:84-89. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.02.013. eCollection 2016 Dec.
This study examines the birth weight of second and third-generation Hispanics born in California and Florida, two of the major immigrant destination states in the US. I exploit a unique dataset of linked birth records for two generations of children born in California and Florida (1970-2009) and linear probability models to investigate the generational decline in the birth outcomes of Hispanics in the US. The data allow using an extensive set of socio-demographic controls and breaking down the results by country of origin. Second-generation children of Mexican and Cuban origin have better birth outcomes than children of US-born white women. Children of Puerto Rican origin have instead worse birth outcomes. The advantage observed among second-generation Hispanics erodes substantially in the third generation but third-generation Mexicans retain some of it.
本研究考察了出生于加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州的第二代及第三代西班牙裔的出生体重，这两个州是美国主要的移民目的地州。我利用了加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州（1970 - 2009年）两代儿童的关联出生记录这一独特数据集以及线性概率模型，来研究美国西班牙裔出生结局的代际下降情况。这些数据允许使用大量社会人口统计学控制变量，并按原籍国对结果进行细分。墨西哥和古巴裔的第二代儿童比美国出生的白人女性的孩子有更好的出生结局。相反，波多黎各裔儿童的出生结局更差。在第二代西班牙裔中观察到的优势在第三代中大幅减弱，但第三代墨西哥裔仍保留了一些优势。
