The Healthy Migrant Effect: New Findings From the Mexican Family Life Survey

AbstractThis paper estimates the effects of teenage childbearing on education, working, physical and mental health, and physical activity of young girls in Mexico using two waves of the nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey. We employ a propensity score matching model that accounts for a rich set of baseline covariates that predict teenage childbearing to attempt to reduce the bias due to confounding variables associated with teenage childbearing. The results demonstrate that teenage childbearing is associated with an increase in the probability of being overweight, and reductions in physical activity and the probability of high school completion. Moreover, the results are consistent when we employ sibling fixed effects to account for unobservable family background.

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Family Life Education—Some New Findings

Social Casework ◽

10.1177/104438945503600302 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 106-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Olive L. Crocker

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Family Life Education ◽

New Findings ◽

Life Education

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Links Between Childhood and Adult Social Circumstances and Obesity and Hypertension in the Mexican Population

Journal of Aging and Health ◽

10.1177/0898264311422255 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 23 (7) ◽

pp. 1141-1165 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez ◽

Eileen M. Crimmins ◽

Graciela M. Teruel ◽

Duncan Thomas

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Early Life ◽

Overweight And Obesity ◽

Mexican Population ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

High Prevalence ◽

Low Education ◽

Mexican Family ◽

Life Circumstances ◽

Mexican Family Life Survey

Objectives: This study examines links between early life circumstances and adult socioeconomic status and obesity and hypertension in the adult Mexican population. Method: We use data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) collected in 2002 for people aged 20 or older ( N = 14,280). Results: We found that men with low education and women with more education have significantly lower obesity. Women with higher education also have significantly less hypertension. Obesity triples the likelihood of hypertension among both men and women. Better childhood experiences are associated with less hypertension among women, but more hypertension among men in rural areas. Discussion: Recent changes in income, nutrition, and infection in Mexico may be responsible for the observed high prevalence of overweight and obesity and the extremely high odds of hypertension among obese young adults.

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Further studies on the ultrastructure of the cochlea

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100159746 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 440-441

Author(s):

Zhixian Wang ◽

Pinjin Zhu ◽

Jianhe Sun ◽

Xuezheng Song

Keyword(s):

Hair Cells ◽

Military Medicine ◽

Outer Hair Cells ◽

Apical Surface ◽

Epithelial Surface ◽

Hearing Research ◽

New Findings ◽

Fine Structures ◽

Temporal Bones ◽

Accurate Observation

Hearing research is important not only for clinical, professional and military medicine, but also for toxicology, gerontology and genetics. Ultrastructure of the cochlea attracts much attention of electron microscopists, (1―3) but the research lags far behind that of the other parts of the organnism. On the basis of careful microdissection, technical improvment and accurate observation, we have got some new findings which have not been reported in the literature.We collected four cochleas from human corpses. Temporal bones dissected 1 h after death and cochleas perfused with fixatives 4 h after death were good enough in terms of preservation of fine structures. SEM:The apical surface of OHCs (Outer hair cells) and DTs (Deiters cells) is narrower than that of IPs (Inner pillar cells). The mosaic configuration of the reticular membrane is not typical. The stereocilia of IHCs (Inner hair cells) are not uniform and some kinocilia could be seen on the OHCs in adults. The epithelial surface of RM (Reissner’s membrane) is not smooth and no mesh could be seen on the mesothelial surface of RM. TEM.

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