Arbeitspapier
Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health
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 to 1998. Refugees allocated to low-income neighborhoods had a 12 percent higher risk of having developed a lifestyle related disease 8 to 15 years after immigration compared with those allocated to high-income 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16949
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Health Behavior
Health and Inequality
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Thema
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health inequality
Refugee Dispersal Policy
lifestyle related diseases
neighborhood effects
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hasager, Linea
Jørgensen, Mia
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2024
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hasager, Linea
- Jørgensen, Mia
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2024
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