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high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood leads to long-term (10 to 15 year) improvements in adult physical and mental … neighborhood poverty (13 percentage points) increases subjective well-being by an amount equal to the gap in subjective well …,000. Subjective well-being is more strongly affected by changes in neighborhood economic disadvantage than racial segregation, which …
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We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO …
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Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by …-linear effects of neighborhood conditions, magnitude of the change in neighborhood context, frequency of moves, treatment effect …, the findings suggest that selection bias might account for evidence of neighborhood effects on adult economic outcomes in …
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Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by …-linear effects of neighborhood conditions, magnitude of the change in neighborhood context, frequency of moves, treatment effect …, the findings suggest that selection bias might account for evidence of neighborhood effects on adult economic outcomes in …
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in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects … new neighborhood environments …
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We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO …
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in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects … new neighborhood environments …
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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