NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON THE LONG-TERM WELL-BEING OF LOW-INCOME ADULTS

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• Alternative Title:
  Science
• Personal Author:
  Ludwig, Jens ; Duncan, Greg J. ; Gennetian, Lisa A. ; Katz, Lawrence F. ; Kessler, Ronald C. ; Kling, Jeffrey R. ; Sanbonmatsu, Lisa
• Description:
  Nearly 9 million Americans live in extreme-poverty neighborhoods, places that also tend to be racially segregated and dangerous. Yet, the effects on the well-being of residents of moving out of such communities into less distressed areas remain uncertain. Using data from Moving to Opportunity, a unique randomized housing mobility experiment, we found that moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood leads to long-term (10- to 15-year) improvements in adult physical and mental health and subjective well-being, despite not affecting economic self-sufficiency. A 1-standard deviation decline in neighborhood poverty (13 percentage points) increases subjective well-being by an amount equal to the gap in subjective well-being between people whose annual incomes differ by $13,000--a large amount given that the average control group income is $20,000. Subjective well-being is more strongly affected by changes in neighborhood economic disadvantage than racial segregation, which is important because racial segregation has been declining since 1970, but income segregation has been increasing.
• Subjects:
  Adult Happiness Housing Humans Income Mental Health Personal Satisfaction Poverty Quality Of Life Residence Characteristics Social Conditions United States United States Government Agencies

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• Source:
  Science. 337(6101):1505-1510
• Pubmed ID:
  22997331
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3491569
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 MH077026/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HD040404/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R56-AG031259/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P01-AG005842-22S1/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01-HD040444/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P20-AG012180/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P30 DK092949/DK/NIDDK NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P30 AG012810/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49-CE000906/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE000906/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01-MH077026/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R24-HD051152-04/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HD040444/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R56 AG031259/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R24 HD051152/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P01 AG005842/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AG031259/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01-HD040404/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  337
• Issue:
  6101
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4579efc3760c09b5b9965d4be1c85a13b32d339b5d0a9e95177588953e77338c
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33466/cdc_33466_DS1.pdf
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