Housing and Health

摘要: Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Never- theless, there is scant empirical evidence causal relationship between and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by which deprivation affects health, namely, neighborhood effects the individual dwelling unit. However, a joint examination both absent from literature. Moreover, endogeneity is substantial concern in analyses these problems. Thus far, studies addressing endogeneity concerns done so through experimental design or instrumental variables. While first approach suffers problems external validity, we demonstrate sub- stantial diffculty identifying robust reliable instruments for latter. Consequently, we adopt an alternative strategy to identify on health 21 European countries estimating fixed-effect models considering sources endo- geneity, neighborhoods dwellings. Furthermore, using panel dimension our data, we reveal accumulation dynamics conditions. Our results indicate that living chief socioeconomic determinant over four-year observation period that bad decisive, transmission pathway which socioeconomic status