@article{53b6d7535cb9497ba6c22dfb66b5de08,
title = "Gentrification and the Health of Low-Income Children in New York City",
abstract = "Although the pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the US, little is known about the health consequences of growing up in gentrifying neighborhoods. We used New York State Medicaid claims data to track a cohort of low-income children born in the period 2006-08 for the nine years between January 2009 and December 2017. We compared the 2017 health outcomes of children who started out in low-income neighborhoods that gentrified in the period 2009-15 with those of children who started out in other low-income neighborhoods, controlling for individual child demographic characteristics, baseline neighborhood characteristics, and preexisting trends in neighborhood socioeconomic status. Our findings suggest that the experience of gentrification has no effects on children{\textquoteright}s health system use or diagnoses of asthma or obesity, when children are assessed at ages 9-11, but that it is associated with moderate increases in diagnoses of anxiety or depression—which are concentrated among children living in market-rate housing.",
author = "Kacie Dragan and Ingrid Ellen and Sharon Glied",
note = "Funding Information: Early components of this analysis were shared at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Urban Economics Association in New York City, October 13, 2018; and the 2018 National Conference of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in Washington, D.C., May 31, 2018. All authors were supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation{\textquoteright}s Policies for Action program (Grant No. 73216). This analysis used New York State Medicaid data. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the New York State Department of Health. The authors thank Maxwell Austensen for assistance with American Community Survey data and gratefully acknowledge the funding for this research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation{\textquoteright}s Policies for Action program. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Project HOPE. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05422",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "1425--1432",
journal = "Health Affairs",
issn = "0278-2715",
publisher = "Project Hope",
number = "9",
}