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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Mexican population"”.
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NAFTA's distributional effect on Mexico: three essays in regional economics
… essay, we use municipal level data from the Mexican Population and Economic censuses to explain the regional distribution of the benefits from trade in Mexico after the NAFTA. To explicitly identify the effect of the trade agreement, we compare results for growth in traded and non-traded …
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The planning and real estate implications of North American retirees moving to Mexico : A study of Bucerías, Nayarit
… Mexico represents a small fraction of the total Mexican population, their concentration in specific communities suggests that the impact on these communities may be significant. Furthermore, a series of circumstances such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Internet, as well as the …
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¡El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!:” Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas
This dissertation chronicles a Mexican American community’s struggle for survival amidst late twentieth century urban revitalization. South El Paso, Texas, a one square mile neighborhood along the U.S.-México border, functioned as a city within a city. For over a century, the ethnic Mexican …
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Population Dynamics of the Mourning Dove in South Dakota
… Recoveries totaled 2.8 percent of the banded population, 2.5 percent from hunting and 0.5 percent from non-hunting. Annual mortality estimates of local (nestling) bandings from 1956-61 were between 54.4 and 64.5 percent. Subsequent adult mortality from local bandings was between 51.0 and 52.4 …
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Güeras, Morenas, y Prietas: Mexicana Color Lines and Ethnoracial Sameness-Difference
… and racialized experiences of women of Mexican descent residing in the greater Tampa Bay region and the multiple meanings that they assigned to race and color categories. Tampa's in-between status, straddling North and South and black/white imaginaries provides important insight into the …
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Independent and interacting effects of diet and genetic risk on obesity-related comorbidities
… but less research exists in non-European populations and individuals with obesity. Our objective was to explore dietary and genetic factors associated with dyslipidemia in populations at risk for metabolic disease. Methods: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCT) was conducted …
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Socioeconomic status and diabetes among Mexican adults
… between SES and type 2 diabetes among Mexican adults aged 20-69. In contrast with previous studies, we use individual, household and municipality measures of SES simultaneously when investigating: prevalence of total, diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes in the year 2000; and incidence of …
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Exploring the association between Hispanic mothers’ acculturation and children’s health outcome in the United States and Mexico: Considering family mealtime routines
Obesity has become a pressing issue for Hispanic populations in the United States (U.S.) as well as for the Mexican population in Mexico with prevalence steadily increasing over the last quarter century for both adults and children (Flegal, 2016; Skinner et al., 2018). Given these high obesity …
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Defining risk for metabolic syndrome in young Mexican adults: the relationship between β,β-carotene-15,15'- oxygenase 1, nutrition and the lipid profile
… established, however those designated for the Mexican population have been shown to be inadequate for accurately assessing risk for disease because they are based on a South Asian population (2, 3). MetS and obesity itself are the product of a complex interplay between environment, lifestyle, …
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Dietary associations that may reduce metabolic syndrome risk in Mexican young adults
… one of which is Mexico. As of 2006, 72% of Mexican adults aged 20 years and older were overweight or obese (Barquera, Campos-Nonato et al., 2009), a statistic that surpasses the prevalence of these conditions in the United States. The Mexican young adult population (20-29 years of age) is …
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Essays on Development Economics: Families, Child Human Capital, and Migration
… the use of uniquely rich longitudinal data, the Mexican Family Life Survey, to advance our understanding of individual, household and family behavior.</p><p>Using these population-level data, the first chapter is an evaluation of a prominent anti-poverty program, Oportunidades, on child …
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Community Assessment of Cardiovascular Health and Risk Among People of Mexican Descent in Berwyn, Illinois
… races and ethnicities. The number of persons of Mexican ethnicity has increased significantly in the United States, notably in the community of Berwyn, a suburb of Chicago, IL where according to the U.S. 2010 census 60% of the community is now of Mexican descent. The factors that contribute to …