Excess under-five mortality of children born to immigrants: Longitudinal evidence from France
(2025) Vienna Yearbook of Population Research — Vol. 2025, n° 23, p. 1-27 (2025)
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Idohou, Emmanuel 
Guillot, Michel
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- Immigrant children face significant disparities in terms of their survival. To investigate the role of parental origin in explaining these disparities, we used the large French socio-demographic panel, with a sample of 687,535 births from 1990 to 2020, to which a propensity score method and longitudinal approaches were applied. Our findings reveal that even after accounting for confounding factors by balancing sociodemographic variables, disparities in under-five mortality persist based on the mother’s origin. Specifically, notable differences in mortality were observed among three immigrant groups: women born in Sub-Saharan Africa, in North Africa, and in the group of regions including America, Oceania and others. Our results show no protective effect of mixed parenting on under-five mortality. Additionally, we observed that a higher proportion of children born to immigrant mothers in the municipality was associated with increased under-five mortality for children of native mothers and some children of immigrant mothers. Moreover, our study confirmed the influence of paternal support on child survival.
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Idohou, E., Bocquier, P., & Guillot, M. (2025). Excess under-five mortality of children born to immigrants: Longitudinal evidence from France. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2025(23), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1553/p-fdgp-bgc3 (Original work published 2025)