- Speaker
- Date
- Monday 9 Sep 2024, 11:30 - 12:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- 2-16
- Building
- Polak Building
Does living in a low-income neighbourhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighbourhood effects on health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighbourhoods from 1986 to 1998.
Refugees allocated to low-income neighbourhoods 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 neighbourhoods.
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.
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