RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Gray, Lynn
). Lynn -Original Message- From: Bahizi_P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration Country of destination would be the answer. Life expectancy has a lot to do with access to a myriad of services

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC)
of preventative care). Lynn -Original Message- From: Bahizi_P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration Country of destination would be the answer. Life expectancy has a lot to do with access

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Rodney F Weiher
employees of the weapons plants. Walt Warnick -Original Message- From: Bryan D Caplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration Bahizi_P wrote: Country of destination would be the answer

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Alex Tabarrok
You can find lots of data on life-expectancy and health broken down by age, race, hispanic origin and much else at tbe National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about.htm after a quick search, however, I couldn't find anything on country of birth, let alone age of

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread jim horsman
At some point there must be a cross-over point. If I live in Third Worldzania for 60 years, exposed to Typhus, Typhoid, Dengue Fever, malaria, Plague, TB, and have been mal-nourished, THEN I move to the US I doubt my life expectancy, AS COMPARED TO AMERICANS, will be all that great,

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-26 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
/pers.htm -Original Message- From: jim horsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 3:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration Life expectancy varies widely between countries. When someone moves to a new country, what best

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-26 Thread Bryan D Caplan
. Pierre Bahizi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bryan Caplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Life Expectancy and Immigration Life expectancy varies widely between countries. When someone moves to a new

Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-25 Thread Bryan Caplan
Life expectancy varies widely between countries. When someone moves to a new country, what best predicts their lifespan? Country of origin? Or country of destination? -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-25 Thread Gray, Lynn
It would seem to depend on the age of the person at the time of the move. Lynn Gray -Original Message- From: Bryan Caplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Life Expectancy and Immigration Life expectancy varies widely

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-25 Thread Bahizi_P
]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Life Expectancy and Immigration Life expectancy varies widely between countries. When someone moves to a new country, what best predicts their lifespan? Country of origin? Or country of destination

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-25 Thread Bryan Caplan
Gray, Lynn wrote: It would seem to depend on the age of the person at the time of the move. Maybe so, maybe not. We can imagine that if a 70-year-old person from Congo shows up in the U.S., they can immediately tap into the wonders of the U.S. medical system, nutrition, etc. Do you know of

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-25 Thread jim horsman
Life expectancy varies widely between countries. When someone moves to a new country, what best predicts their lifespan? Country of origin? Or country of destination? -- The country is not the determining factor for life expectancy. Some immigrants live like the country of origin and