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厌倦了你的贫困邻里?——邻里效应对健康影响的准实验证据

Sick of your poor neighborhood? Quasi-experimental evidence on neighborhood effects on health
Journal of Public Economics · 2026 · Linea Hasager、Mia Jørgensen

中文摘要

居住在低收入邻里会对健康产生负面影响吗?我们利用一项空间分散政策(Spatial Dispersal Policy),该政策在1986年至1998年间以准随机方式将难民重新安置于不同邻里和公寓楼,据此识别出邻里效应对健康的因果影响。与被分配到高收入邻里的难民相比,被分配到低收入邻里的难民在移民8至15年后患上生活方式相关疾病的风险高出12%。我们的结果表明,与邻居的互动以及直接周边环境的特征是健康结果的重要决定因素。我们的结果进一步表明,医疗服务可及性的差异与个体劳动力市场结果并非邻里健康效应背后的主要驱动因素。

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 and apartment buildings from 1986 to 1998. Refugees allocated to low-income neighborhoods had a 12 percent higher risk of developing 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 of health outcomes. Our results further suggest that differences in health care access and individual labor market outcomes are not the main drivers behind the neighborhood effects on health.
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