How Does Household Residential Instability Influence Child Health Outcomes? A Quantile Analysis

Emma Baker, Ngoc Thien Anh Pham, Lyrian Daniel and Rebecca Bentley
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Emma Baker: School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
Ngoc Thien Anh Pham: School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
Lyrian Daniel: School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
Rebecca Bentley: Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3053, Australia

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 21, 1-11

Abstract: At the core of housing and welfare research is a premise that stable residential environments are important to children’s health and development. The relationship between housing stability and health outcomes for children is, however, complex; stable housing situations are sometimes associated with poorer health outcomes, and some children may be more or less resilient to residential instability. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) dataset enables us to longitudinally follow the housing and health of more than 10,000 children and their families. We employ a quantile analysis technique, a currently underutilized tool for testing associations across the distribution of an outcome, to test whether exposure to housing instability has a differential impact on children’s health dependent on their initial health status. Our findings suggest that the health outcomes of residential instability are highly dependent on children’s initial health status.

Keywords: housing; children; health; PedsQL; residential instability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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