Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health
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Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. / Hasager, Linea; Jørgensen, Mia Renee Herløv.
2021. p. 1-74.Research output: Working paper › Research
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood?
T2 - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health
AU - Hasager, Linea
AU - Jørgensen, Mia Renee Herløv
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Does living in a low-income neighborhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighborhood effects on health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986-1998. The risk of developing a lifestyle related disease before 2018 increased by 5.1 percent for those allocated to the poorest third of neighborhoods compared with those in the richest third of neighborhoods. Our results suggest that interaction with neighbors and the characteristics of the immediate environment are important determinants for health outcomes. Differences in health care access, ethnic networks, and individual labor market outcomes cannot explain our findings.
AB - Does living in a low-income neighborhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighborhood effects on health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986-1998. The risk of developing a lifestyle related disease before 2018 increased by 5.1 percent for those allocated to the poorest third of neighborhoods compared with those in the richest third of neighborhoods. Our results suggest that interaction with neighbors and the characteristics of the immediate environment are important determinants for health outcomes. Differences in health care access, ethnic networks, and individual labor market outcomes cannot explain our findings.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Health inequality
KW - Refugee Dispersal Policy
KW - lifestyle related diseases
KW - neighborhood effects
UR - https://www.econ.ku.dk/cebi/publikationer/working-papers/CEBI_WP_02-21.pdf
M3 - Working paper
T3 - CEBI Working Paper Series
SP - 1
EP - 74
BT - Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood?
ER -
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