Housing affordability and household health. Evidence from 33 EU countries

Paloma Taltavull de La Paz

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Abstract: In this paper, we explore the health consequences of housing affordability on household members. We use the information about health in EU-Silc microdata from 2008 to 2020 for the European countries and identify the different impacts that lack of ‘ex-post’ housing affordability would have had at the country and regional levels. Based on previous studies, the paper tests whether different situations of lack of housing affordability (measured by the affordability ratio and housing stress) would have contributed to health conditions at a personal level, focusing on the different persons in the household and paying attention to children’s health. Thus, the personal files of EU-Silc are used for this purpose in a panel analysis for 2008-2020. The paper identifies and test the channels of transmission of lack of affordability to health, as direct and indirect. They are tested using panel-regression methods for 33 European countries. Results give empirical evidence that lack of housing affordability affects the self-reported health status in households with special incidence of mental health.

Keywords: Health; Housing Affordability; Housing Stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-01-01
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