Child Health and Neighborhood Conditions: Results from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
利用随机住房券实验数据，研究发现五年后住房流动性对儿童整体健康、哮喘、伤害和体重指数影响很小，甚至可能恶化某些健康指标，与社区条件解释健康收入梯度的假设不符。
Using data from the Moving to Opportunity randomized housing voucher experiment, we estimate the direct effects of housing and neighborhood quality on child health. We show that, five years after random assignment, housing mobility has little impact on overall health status, asthma, injuries, and body mass index. The few effects that we observe imply that being offered a voucher through the program might worsen some aspects of child health, despite significant improvements in housing quality, nutrition and exercise, and neighborhood safety. Our results are inconsistent with the hypothesis that neighborhood conditions explain much of the widely-cited income gradient in child health.