Neighborhoods, Obesity and Diabetes –-- A Randomized Social Experiment

Greg Duncan (gduncan@uci.edu), Lawrence Katz, Ronald Kessler, Jeffrey Kling, Lisa Gennetian, Emma Adam, Jens Ludwig, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Stacy Tessler, Thomas W. McDade and Robert C. Whitaker

Scholarly Articles from Harvard University Department of Economics

Abstract: Background: The question of whether neighborhood environment contributes directly to the development of obesity and diabetes remains unresolved. The study reported on here uses data from a social experiment to assess the association of randomly assigned variation in neighborhood conditions with obesity and diabetes. Methods: From 1994 through 1998, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) randomly assigned 4498 women with children living in public housing in high-poverty urban census tracts (in which ≥40% of residents had incomes below the federal poverty threshold) to one of three groups: 1788 were assigned to receive housing vouchers, which were redeemable only if they moved to a low-poverty census tract (where

Date: 2011
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Published in New England Journal of Medicine

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