ArticleAmerican journal of public health2016
Heterogeneous Effects of Housing Vouchers on the Mental Health of US Adolescents.
Article in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Housing Assistance and Child Health: A Systematic Review.Pediatrics · 2018Pooled it
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- Modification of Housing Mobility Experimental Effects on Delinquency and Educational Problems: Middle Adolescence as a Sensitive Period.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2018Trial
- Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Adolescent Substance Use by the School and Peer Environments.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Trial
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- Heterogeneity in the association between social support and mental distress in old-age retirees - a computational approach using longitudinal cohort data.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Report on the Joint Workshop on the Relations between Health Inequalities, Ageing and Multimorbidity, Iceland, May 3-4, 2023.Clinical epidemiology · 2024Article
- A quantitative assessment of the frequency and magnitude of heterogeneous treatment effects in studies of the health effects of social policies.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Effects of Housing Vouchers on the Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Opportunity among Low-Income Families: The Moving to Opportunity Experiment.Housing studies · 2023Article
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- School Racial Segregation and the Health of Black Children.Pediatrics · 2022Article
- The Benefits of Rental Assistance for Children's Health and School Attendance in the United States.Demography · 2021Article
- Integrating Urban Adolescent Mental Health Into Urban Sustainability Collective Action: An Application of Shiffman & Smith's Framework for Global Health Prioritization.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Role of socioeconomic status and housing conditions in geriatric depression in rural China: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Gender Differences in Geriatric Depressive Symptoms in Rural China: The Role of Physical Housing Environments and Living Arrangements.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- The Impact of Housing Assistance on the Mental Health of Children in the United States.Journal of health and social behavior · 2018Article
- Housing Assistance Programs and Adult Health in the United States.American journal of public health · 2017Article
- Building a National Neighborhood Dataset From Geotagged Twitter Data for Indicators of Happiness, Diet, and Physical Activity.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess the mental health effects on adolescents of low-income families residing in high-poverty public housing who received housing vouchers to assist relocation.
methodsWe defined treatment effects to compare 2829 adolescents aged 12 to 19 years in families offered housing vouchers versus those living in public housing in the Moving to Opportunity experiment (1994-1997; Boston, MA; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY). We employed model-based recursive partitioning to identify subgroups with heterogeneous treatment effects on psychological distress and behavior problems measured in 2002. We tested 35 potential baseline treatment modifiers.
resultsFor psychological distress, Chicago participants experienced null treatment effects. Outside Chicago, boys experienced detrimental effects, whereas girls experienced beneficial effects. Behavior problems effects were null for adolescents who were aged 10 years or younger at baseline. For adolescents who were older than 10 years at baseline, violent crime victimization, unmarried parents, and unsafe neighborhoods increased adverse treatment effects. Adolescents who were older than 10 years at baseline without learning problems or violent crime victimization, and whose parents moved for better schools, experienced beneficial effects.
conclusionsHealth effects of housing vouchers varied across subgroups. Supplemental services may be necessary for vulnerable subgroups for whom housing vouchers alone may not be beneficial.
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