What Do Randomized Studies of Housing Mobility Demonstrate?

Sobel, Michael E.

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“…To address the well-known problem of self-selection, randomized control studies are commonly thought of as the "gold standard". However, neighborhood social experiments are also subject to limitations in the dose and length of intervention and issues such as randomization and substitution bias and "interference" which may also undermine causal inferences (Sorensen et al, 1998;Heckman and Smith, 1995;Sobel, 2006;Rubin, 1986).…”

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Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

Phuong

Dubowitz

Bird

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Economics & Human Biology

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A growing body of literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and health outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood context and body mass index (BMI) or whether the association between neighborhood context and BMI differs by ethnicity. This paper investigates several neighborhood characteristics as potential explanatory factors for the variation of BMI across the United States; further, this paper explores to what extent segregation and the concentration of disadvantage across neighborhoods help explain ethnic disparities in BMI. Using data geo-coded at the census tract-level and linked with individual-level data from the Third National Health and Examination Survey in the United States (U.S.), we find significant variation in BMI across U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, neighborhood characteristics have a significant association with body mass and partially explain ethnic disparities in BMI, net of individual-level adjustments. These data also reveal evidence that ethnic enclaves are not in fact advantageous for the body mass index of Hispanics-a relationship counter to what has been documented for other health outcomes.

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Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

Phuong

Dubowitz

Bird

et al. 2007

Economics & Human Biology

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“…This is also sometimes referred to as the assumption of "no spillover." Some recent work has discussed relaxing this SUTVA assumption, in the context of school effects (Hong & Raudenbush, 2006) or neighborhood effects (Sobel, 2006).…”

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Best Practices in Quasi–Experimental Designs: Matching Methods for Causal Inference

Stuart¹,

Rubin²

2008

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“…What this pattern makes clear is that the traditional literature on stratification, which focuses 3 Evidence on whether neighborhoods influence individual behavioral outcomes varies depending on the outcome being examined and the methods used. There are important problems with all approaches that have been used to study neighborhood effects, including the most recent experimental attempt to assess the effects of residential mobility on individual outcomes (for a description of the Moving to Opportunity program, see Goering and Feins [2003]; for a recent critique of the program, see Sobel [2006]). The following sources provide reviews of the neighborhood effects literature: Brooks-Gunn et al 1993;Ellen and Turner 2003;Jencks and Mayer 1990;Sampson et al 2002;Small and Newman 2001. primarily on income, occupation, and education, is not sufficient for describing the stratification of place.…”

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

Sharkey

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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This article draws on the extensive literature on economic and social mobility in America to examine intergenerational contextual mobility, defined as the degree to which inequalities in neighborhood environments persist across generations. PSID data are analyzed to reveal remarkable continuity in neighborhood economic status from one generation to the next. The primary consequence of persistent neighborhood stratification is that the racial inequality in America's neighborhoods that existed a generation ago has been transmitted, for the most part unchanged, to the current generation. More than 70% of black children who grow up in the poorest quarter of American neighborhoods remain in the poorest quarter of neighborhoods as adults, compared to 40% of whites. The results suggest that racial inequality in neighborhood economic status is substantially underestimated with short-term measures of neighborhood income or poverty and, second, that the steps taken to end racial discrimination in the housing and lending markets have not enabled black Americans to advance out of America's poorest neighborhoods.A long and rich tradition of research in the social sciences is devoted to describing and explaining patterns of social and economic mobility in 1 I thank Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Chris Winship for their critical input on this project. I am also grateful for feedback from audiences at several universities at which I presented the paper. I received particularly detailed and valuable comments from Xavier de

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What Do Randomized Studies of Housing Mobility Demonstrate?

Cited by 422 publications

References 36 publications

Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988–1994)

Best Practices in Quasi–Experimental Designs: Matching Methods for Causal Inference

The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

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