Previous researchers have found that Hispanic immigrants tend to have better health than could be reasonably explained by their socioeconomic status and other demographic variables. The main objective of this study is to re-investigate the Hispanic health paradox covering the period from 1992 to 2012. Main contributions of the paper include using a data set of older Americans from the Health and Retirement Study. More importantly, we use two new measures of health. Previous research on the paradox had primarily used mortality or morbidity to measure health. In contrast, the HRS includes a measure of self-reported poor health from which we construct a latent health variable. Using both poor health and latent health we find that even among our sample of older Americans that Hispanic Immigrants remain more healthy than could be explained by their socioeconomic status and their other health inputs.

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老年美国人的西班牙裔健康悖论：经验说明。

先前的研究人员发现，西班牙裔移民的健康状况往往好于其社会经济状况和其他人口统计学变量所能合理解释的程度。这项研究的主要目的是重新调查涵盖1992年至2012年这段时间的西班牙裔健康悖论。该论文的主要贡献包括使用来自健康和退休研究的老年人的数据集。更重要的是，我们使用了两种新的健康指标。先前关于悖论的研究主要使用死亡率或发病率来衡量健康状况。相比之下，HRS包括自我报告的不良健康状况的一种度量，由此我们可以构造潜在的健康变量。