Housing, Health and Happiness

Arbeitspapier

Despite the importance of housing for people’s well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican Government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. We find that replacing dirt floors with cement floors significantly improves the health of young children. Specifically, we find significant decreases in the incidence of parasitic infestations, diarrhea, and the prevalence of anemia, and an improvement in children’s cognitive development. Additionally, we find that replacing dirt floors by cement floors significantly improves adult welfare, as measured by increased satisfaction with their housing and quality of life, as well as by lower scores on depression and perceived stress scales.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 74

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
• Thema: Wohnung ; Soziale Wohnungspolitik ; Gesundheit ; Zufriedenheit ; Mexiko

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cattaneo, Matias ; Galiani, Sebastian ; Gertler, Paul ; Martinez, Sebastian ; Titiunik, Rocio
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
• (wo): La Plata
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127590
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ