(joint work with Jennifer Beam Dowd)We proceed to analyze relationships between individuals' health status in 2006 on the one hand, and the run-up in housing values in their communities over the previous decade or more. The outcomes we analyze include stress-related indicators like blood pressure and incident cardiovascular disease, as well as weight-for-height and waist circumference, measures of emotional and psychological well-being, expectations for the future, self-reported generalized health status, performance on cognitive tests, health-seeking behavior, and specific disease conditions. Subject to our identifying assumption, the observed relationships can be interpreted as "causal" in the sense that nearby communities experiencing slower run-ups in housing prices represent a valid counterfactual comparison group for communities that experienced more rapid run-ups.
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