TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hasager, Linea
AU  - Jørgensen, Mia
        TI  - Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health
        PY  - 2024/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16949
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16949
        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 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.
        KW  - health inequality
KW  - Refugee Dispersal Policy
KW  - lifestyle related diseases
KW  - neighborhood effects
        ER  -