Trial reportSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2019
The price of admission: does moving to a low-poverty neighborhood increase discriminatory experiences and influence mental health?
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- 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
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- A Longitudinal Ecologic Analysis of Neighborhood-Level Social Inequalities in Health in Texas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The Price of Denial: Examining the Health Consequences of Mortgage Lending Bias in Michigan Metro Areas.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- School racial/ethnic composition, effect modification by caring teacher/staff presence, and mid-/late-life depressive symptoms: findings from the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Using instrumental variables to address unmeasured confounding in causal mediation analysis.Biometrics · 2024Article
- Opportunities and challenges in using instrumental variables to study causal effects in nonrandomized stress and trauma research.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2023Review
- Racialized Housing Discrimination and Population Health: a Scoping Review and Research Agenda.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- Perceived Discrimination, Nativity, and Cognitive Performance in a Multiethnic Study of Older Adults: Findings From the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study is typically interpreted as a trial of changes in neighborhood poverty. However, the program may have also increased exposure to housing discrimination. Few prior studies have tested whether interpersonal and institutional forms of discrimination may have offsetting effects on mental health, particularly using intervention designs.
methodsWe evaluated the effects of MTO, which randomized public housing residents in 5 cities to rental vouchers, or to in-place controls (N = 4248, 1997-2002), which generated variation on neighborhood poverty (% of residents in poverty) and encounters with housing discrimination. Using instrumental variable analysis (IV), we derived two-stage least squares IV estimates of effects of neighborhood poverty and housing discrimination on adult psychological distress and major depressive disorder (MDD).
resultsRandomization to voucher group vs. control simultaneously decreased neighborhood % poverty and increased exposure to housing discrimination. Higher neighborhood % poverty was associated with increased psychological distress [B
conclusionsNeighborhood poverty mediated MTO treatment on adult mental health, suggesting that greater neighborhood poverty contributes to mental health problems. Yet housing discrimination-mental health findings were inconclusive. Effects of neighborhood poverty on health may be underestimated when failing to account for discrimination.
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