Trial reportThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2017
Adolescence Is a Sensitive Period for Housing Mobility to Influence Risky Behaviors: An Experimental Design.
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- Housing Assistance and Child Health: A Systematic Review.Pediatrics · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of voucher receipt on perceived discrimination in boys and girls in the Moving to Opportunity study.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Trial
- Housing mobility protects against alcohol use for children with socioemotional health vulnerabilities: An experimental design.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Trial
- Helped into Harm: Mediation of a Housing Voucher Intervention on Mental Health and Substance Use in Boys.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Trial
- Effects of a federal housing voucher experiment on adolescent binge drinking: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Trial
- Modification of Housing Mobility Experimental Effects on Delinquency and Educational Problems: Middle Adolescence as a Sensitive Period.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2018Trial
- Adolescent residential mobility, local nasal inflammation, and adult susceptibility to the common cold.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Individual and regional differences in the effects of school racial segregation on Black students' health.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Efficient and flexible estimation of natural direct and indirect effects under intermediate confounding and monotonicity constraints.Biometrics · 2023Article
- Cortical reorganization of the glutamate synapse in the activity-based anorexia rat model: Impact on cognition.Journal of neurochemistry · 2022Article
- Neighborhoods, Schools, and Adolescent Violence: Ecological Relative Deprivation, Disadvantage Saturation, or Cumulative Disadvantage?Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- The Benefits of Rental Assistance for Children's Health and School Attendance in the United States.Demography · 2021Article
- Activity-Based Anorexia Dynamically Dysregulates the Glutamatergic Synapse in the Nucleus Accumbens of Female Adolescent Rats.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Do peer social relationships mediate the harmful effects of a housing mobility experiment on boys' risky behaviors?Annals of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Sex differences in the socioeconomic gradient of children's early development.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- Immigrant enclaves and risk of drug involvement among asylum-seeking immigrants in Sweden: A quasi-experimental study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeTest whether neighborhood mobility effects on adolescent risky behaviors varies at different developmental ages and gender.
methodsThe Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study randomly assigned volunteer families (1994-1997) to receive a Section 8 voucher to move to lower poverty neighborhoods versus a public housing control group. We tested three-way treatment, gender, and age-at-randomization interactions using intent-to-treat linear regression predicting a risky behavior index (RBI; measured in 2002, N = 2,829), defined as the fraction of 10 behaviors the youth reported (six measuring risky substance use [RSU], four measuring risky sexual behavior), and the RSU and risky sexual behavior subscales.
resultsThe treatment main effect on RBI was nonsignificant for girls (B = -.01, 95% confidence interval -.024 to .014) and harmful for boys (B = .03, 95% confidence interval .009 to .059; treatment-gender interaction p = .01). The treatment, gender, and age interaction was significant for RBI (p = .02) and RSU (p ≤ .001). Treatment boys 10 years or older at randomization were more likely (p < .05) than controls to exhibit RBI and RSU, whereas there was no effect of treatment for boys <10 years. There were no treatment control differences by age for girls' RBI, but girls 9+ years were less likely than girls ≤8 years to exhibit RSU (p < .05).
conclusionsMoving families of boys aged 10 years or older with rental vouchers may have adverse consequences on risky behaviors but may be beneficial for girls' substance use. Developmental windows are different by gender for the effects of improving neighborhood contexts on adolescent risky behavior.
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