The effects of housing and neighborhood conditions on child mortality

Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

Journal of Health Economics, 2013, vol. 32, issue 1, 195-206

Abstract: In this paper we estimate the causal effects on child mortality from moving into less distressed neighborhood environments. We match mortality data covering the period from 1997 to 2009 with information on every child in public housing that applied for a housing voucher in Chicago in 1997 (N=11,680). Families were randomly assigned to the voucher wait list, and only some families were offered vouchers. The odds ratio for the effects of being offered a housing voucher on overall mortality rates is equal to 1.13 for all children (95% CI 0.73–1.70), 1.34 for boys (95% CI 0.85–2.05) and 0.21 for girls (95% CI 0.01–1.04).

Keywords: Housing vouchers; Mortality; Neighborhoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I12 I14 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality (2011)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.10.008

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