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The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity / Tatyana Deryugina, David Molitor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deryugina, Tatyana.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29321.
- NBER working paper series no. w29321
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places that are better for their health or that improve areas that are detrimental to health are desirable depends on the mechanisms behind place effects, yet these mechanisms remain poorly understood.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2021.
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