Infant mortality rates are lower for Hispanic babies born in the US to non-US born parents. This is a pretty well known fact in the public health research. Se

Infant mortality rates are lower for Hispanic babies born in the US to non-US born parents. This is a pretty well known fact in the public health research. See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6026a6.htm?s_cid=mm6026a6_e&source=govdelivery http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6026a6.htm?s_cid=... I vaguely remember that the effect disappears for second generation births. Don't have a citation handy for that though. (Edit: pdf link since the above link seemed truncated - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_06.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_06.pdf )