Skin Tone, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender Differences in BMI among New US Immigrants.

Scholars have been interested in the relationship between skin tone and health since at least the 1970s; however, no study, to our knowledge, has analyzed a diverse immigrant sample. In this study, we use the New Immigrant Survey and interactions to examine how skin tone and race/ethnicity - alongside gender - jointly pattern BMI among Legal Permanent Residents. Our approach allows for the analysis of BMI among multiple racial/ethnic immigrant groups, while considering skin tone.

Immigrant and native financial well-being: The roles of place of education and race/ethnicity.

Immigrants' integration into U.S. society has occupied the interest of both scholars and the general public throughout the nation's history.

Cohabitation history, marriage, and wealth accumulation.

This study extends research on the relationship between wealth accumulation and union experiences, such as marriage and cohabitation. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we explore the wealth trajectories of married individuals in light of their premarital cohabitation histories. Over time, marriage positively correlates with wealth accumulation.

Year of the Woman, Decade of the Man: trajectories of growth in women's state legislative representation.

The expansion of women's political representation ranks among the most significant trends in American politics of the last 100 years. In this paper, we develop two longitudinal theories to explain patterns of growth and change in women's state legislative representation over time. Gender salience suggests that years in which women's absence from politics is problematized (e.