Costa-Font Joan, Sato Azusa, Saenz-de-Miera Belen
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS), Mexico.
J Migr Health. 2024 Oct 28;11:100280. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2024.100280. eCollection 2025.
We measure the cultural persistence of health assessments; namely the association between first (and second) generation migrants' health assessments and those of their home country (and that of their parents).
We use individual data records from over thirty host European countries and over ninety sending countries, as well as controls for migration timing and legal citizenship status. Furthermore, we leverage a wide range of sample countries to attenuate the presence of selection bias.
Our estimates document evidence of cultural persistence of health self-assessments in a wide array of different specifications which vary with age. We estimate that a one standard deviation change in self-reported health in the sendning country is associated with an increase in migrants' self-reported health of about 0.17 standard deviations. The effect size is sensitive to the inclusion of country of residence fixed effects as well as the presence of selection on observables and other robustness checks.
Cross-country comparisons of self-reported health should consider cultural reference points individuals use in assessing their health.
我们衡量健康评估的文化持续性；即第一代（和第二代）移民的健康评估与其祖国（以及其父母的祖国）的健康评估之间的关联。
我们使用来自三十多个欧洲东道国和九十多个移民输出国的个人数据记录，以及对移民时间和合法公民身份的控制变量。此外，我们利用广泛的样本国家来减弱选择偏差的影响。
我们的估计结果表明，在一系列不同的、随年龄变化的设定中，健康自我评估存在文化持续性的证据。我们估计，移民输出国自我报告健康状况的一个标准差变化与移民自我报告健康状况增加约0.17个标准差相关。效应大小对居住国固定效应的纳入、可观测变量的选择以及其他稳健性检验很敏感。
自我报告健康状况的跨国比较应考虑个体在评估自身健康时所使用的文化参照点。
