The impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of British social renters

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The impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of British social renters

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Carol Propper
Simon Burgess
Anne Bolster
George Leckie
Kelvyn Jones
Ron Johnston ()

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This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of individuals living in social housing in the United Kingdom. We exploit a dataset that is representative and longitudinal to match people to their very local neighbourhoods. Using this, we examine the effect of living in a neighbourhood in which the population is more disadvantaged on the levels and change, over a 10-year window, of income and mental health. We find that social renters who live with the most disadvantaged individuals as neighbours have lower levels of household income and poorer mental health. However, neighbourhood appears to have no impact on changes in either household income or individual mental health.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK in its series The Centre for Market and Public Organisation with number 06/161.

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Date of creation: May 2006
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I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General

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NEP-ALL-2007-03-10 (All new papers)
NEP-HEA-2007-03-10 (Health Economics)
NEP-SOC-2007-03-10 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
NEP-URE-2007-03-10 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)

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Steve Gibbons, 2002. "Neighbourhood Effects on Educational Achievement," CEE Discussion Papers 0018, Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE. [Downloadable!]
Jens Ludwig & Greg J. Duncan & Paul Hirschfield, 2001. "Urban Poverty And Juvenile Crime: Evidence From A Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 116(2), pages 655-679, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Manski, Charles F, 1993. "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 60(3), pages 531-42, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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