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This is a Survival Analysis study.

Does the Healthy Migrant Effect Extend to the Next Generation? Infant Mortality and Parental Migration Status in the Antwerp District, 1846–1906 cohorts

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Longitudinal analysis reveals lower infant mortality in domestic migrants, suggesting implications for health policy.

Infants born to domestic migrant mothers had a 17 to 19% lower mortality risk than those of native mothers, indicating a healthy migrant effect.
Cox proportional hazard models confirmed robust findings after adjusting for infant sex and socioeconomic factors, emphasizing the effect's reliability.
International migrant mothers showed no infant mortality advantage, likely due to lower social integration impacting health outcomes.
Effects for infants of international migrant fathers were smaller and not statistically significant, highlighting differences by migration type.

Paul Puschmann (2025) studied this question.

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