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Lopez-Gonzalez, Lorena; Aravena, Veronica C.; Hummer, Robert A. – Social Forces, 2005
Previous research shows that the health behavior of immigrants is favorable to that of native-born adults in the United States. We utilize pooled data from the 1998-2001 National Health Interview Surveys and multinomial logistic regression techniques to build on this literature and examine the association between acculturation and immigrant…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Gender Differences, Acculturation, Immigrants
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Lutz, Amy – Social Forces, 2006
This paper investigates the effects of individual, family, social and demographic characteristics on the maintenance of Spanish among English-speaking Latino youth. This research finds effects of generation, gender, race, parent's English proficiency, single-parent status, parental income, and neighborhood concentration of co-ethnics as well as…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Youth, Individual Characteristics, Social Characteristics