CONTEXT Twin studies suggest that conduct disorder (CD) is under substantial genetic influence, which is stronger for aggressive than for nonaggressive symptoms. Studies of migrating populations offer an alternative strategy for separating environmental and genetic influences on psychiatric disorders. OBJECTIVES To examine variation in the prevalence of CD associated with migration from Mexic...

Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

How does the presence of a large Mexican immigrant population influence the ways later-generation Mexican Americans assert and exercise their ethnic identity? More broadly, how do Mexicans as a group fit into the U.S. ethnoracial mosaic? This theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous book graciously navigates the ideological debates about Mexican assimilation and provides new insights o...

The literature on assimilation and ethnic identity formation largely assumes that the durability of ethnic boundaries is a function of the assimilation measures that sociologists commonly employ. But this literature fails to account adequately for the role of immigration patterns in explaining the durability and nature of ethnic boundaries. Using 123 in-depth interviews with later-generation Me...

The Mexican labor force is distinguished by exceptionally high rates of both international migration and entrepreneurship. During the last half-century, large flows of Mexican workers have migrated to the United States. As noted by Hanson (2006), approximately 10% of the Mexican population resided in the United States in 2004. On the other hand, about 25% of the Mexican labor force is self-empl...

OBJECTIVE Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2002 indicate that prevalence of overweight and obesity continues to rise among Mexican Americans. Little is know about the dietary factors associated with this trend. Ethnic groups have different dietary patterns based on their geographical locations and cultural influences. We examined the dietary patterns of Mexica...

PURPOSE As the Baby-Boom generation enters the ranks of the elderly adults over the next 4 decades, the United States will witness an unprecedented growth in racial/ethnic diversity among the older adult population. Hispanics will comprise 20% of the next generation of older adults, representing the largest minority population aged 65 years and older, with those of Mexican-origin comprising the...

166 Purpose: As the Baby-Boom generation enters the ranks of the elderly adults over the next 4 decades, the United States will witness an unprecedented growth in racial/ethnic diversity among the older adult population. Hispanics will comprise 20% of the next generation of older adults, representing the largest minority population aged 65 years and older, with those of Mexican-origin comprisin...

Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census and from recent years of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress achieved by the Mexicanorigin population in the United States. First, using Census data for U.S.-born youth ages 16-17 who have at least one Mexican pare...