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POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 123-142Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-008-9097-2
Keywords
Infant mortality; International migration; Mexico; Healthy migrant selectivity
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- NICHD NIH HHS [T32 HD007081, T32 HD007081-31, R01 HD043371, R24 HD042849, R24 HD042849-04] Funding Source: Medline
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This study explores rural and urban differences in the relationship between U.S. migration experience measured at the individual, household, and community levels and individual-level infant mortality outcomes in a national sample of recent births in Mexico. Using 2000 Mexican Census data and multi-level regression models, we find that women's own U.S. migration experience is associated with lower odds of infant mortality in both rural and urban Mexico, possibly reflecting a process of healthy migrant selectivity. Household migration has mixed blessings for infant health in rural places: remittances are beneficial for infant survival, but recent out-migration is disruptive. Recent community-level migration experience is not significantly associated with infant mortality overall, although in rural places, there is some evidence that higher levels of community migration are associated with lower infant mortality. Household- and community-level migration have no relationship with infant mortality in urban places. Thus, international migration is associated with infant outcomes in Mexico in fairly complex ways, and the relationships are expressed most profoundly in rural areas of Mexico.
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