HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY ASSIMILATION: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR AMONG IMMIGRANTS
利用原籍国吸烟率数据，研究移民在融入美国社会过程中吸烟行为是否趋同于本地人，发现同化对戒烟概率的影响因原籍国而异，但对当前吸烟或曾吸烟的影响不显著。
Smoking rates in the country of origin were used to empirically examine whether immigrants converge toward natives' level of smoking prevalence with assimilation. Results show that assimilation is associated with a lower likelihood of ever quitting smoking for immigrants from countries with lower smoking rates relative to the USA and a higher likelihood for immigrants from countries with higher smoking rates, but for current or ever smoking, the estimated effects of assimilation are statistically insignificant. Although these findings demonstrate that health assimilation depends on the country of origin, the extent to which this pattern of assimilation is due to peer influence, differences in responsiveness to anti-smoking interventions such as taxes or smoke-free air restrictions, and/or other factors remains unclear because of the limitations of this study.