Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

Overview

Dalhousie University economist and IZA affiliate. Research focuses on health economics, immigration, and intergenerational mobility, particularly the persistence of health outcomes across immigrant and native-born family lines in the United States.

Key Contributions / Features

• Lead author (with Kugler) of Akbulut-Yuksel and Kugler 2016 — Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S. Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate, documenting higher intergenerational health persistence among immigrants and its convergence toward native levels across generations using NLSY79 matched mother-child data.
• Exploits a grandparent fixed-effects ("cousin") design to separate genetic from cultural and behavioral transmission channels.

Related

• Intergenerational Health Transmission
• Cultural Assimilation
• Adriana Kugler

Sources

• Akbulut-Yuksel and Kugler 2016 — Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S. Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate