Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health

Research output: Working paper › Research

Standard

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

Harvard

Hasager, L & Jørgensen, MRH 2021 'Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health' pp. 1-74.

APA

Hasager, L., & Jørgensen, M. R. H. (2021). Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. (pp. 1-74). CEBI Working Paper Series Vol. 21 No. 2

Vancouver

Hasager L, Jørgensen MRH. Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. 2021, p. 1-74.

Author

Hasager, Linea ; Jørgensen, Mia Renee Herløv. / Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. 2021. pp. 1-74 (CEBI Working Paper Series; No. 2, Vol. 21).

Bibtex

@techreport{e547af7dfa5941edb28e99ddf1bbb27d,
title = "Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood?: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Faculty of Social Sciences, Health inequality, Refugee Dispersal Policy, lifestyle related diseases, neighborhood effects",
author = "Linea Hasager and J{\o}rgensen, {Mia Renee Herl{\o}v}",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
series = "CEBI Working Paper Series",
number = "2",
pages = "1--74",
type = "WorkingPaper",

}

RIS

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 -

ID: 296214213