{"title":"Housing conditions and health: New evidence from urban China","authors":"Lanlin Ding , Peng Nie , Alfonso Sousa-Poza","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105248","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the relation between housing conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18 and above. We find that housing improvement reduces the probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 %, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower socioeconomic status (low education and income, and the employed females) and residents of the less developed central and western regions. This beneficial health effect is enhanced by longer treatment periods and consistent across several robustness checks. Housing conditions seemingly operate on health via poor macronutrient intake, physical inactivity, and sleep deprivation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cities","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124004621","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the relation between housing conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18 and above. We find that housing improvement reduces the probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 %, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower socioeconomic status (low education and income, and the employed females) and residents of the less developed central and western regions. This beneficial health effect is enhanced by longer treatment periods and consistent across several robustness checks. Housing conditions seemingly operate on health via poor macronutrient intake, physical inactivity, and sleep deprivation.
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Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.