Moving to opportunity: an experimental study of neighborhood effects on mental health.

By T. Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. American Journal of Public Health, 2003

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The environment of childhood poverty. (2004, background): “…programs that relocate public housing families to neighborhoods varying in income levels (Johnson, Ladd, & Ludwig, 2002; Katz, Kling, & Liebman, 2001; Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2003; Rosenbaum & Harris, 2001), and income intervention experiments that randomly alter household income for indigent…”
Socioeconomic Context, Social Support, and Adolescent Mental Health: A Multilevel Investigation (2006, background): “Overall, the association between depressive symptoms and contextual-level SES appears to be negative: Adolescents residing in areas of low SES are at heightened risk for depressive symptomatology (Aneshensel and Sucoff, 1996; Brooks-Gunn et al., 1993; Goodman et al., 2003; Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn”
Deconcentrating Poverty With Housing Programs (2008, background): “See Goering and Feins (2003) and Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn (2003) for reviews of the experimental Moving to Opportunity program.”
Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-Sufficiency and Health From a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2004, background): “In a sample of 550 in New York three years after random assignment, Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn (2003a) used different scales of depression and anxiety without comparable magnitudes to those reported here and found statistically significant effects of better mental health among the experimental group…”
Differential effects of high‐quality child care (2002, background): “, 1998, 2001) and the effect of a housing voucher program on the individuals who actually took advantage of the vouchers (Katz, Kling, and Liebman, 2001; Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn, 2001).”
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects (2005, neutral): “In studies of single MTO sites 1-3 years after random assignment, there were either no gender differences in effects reported, or more beneficial effects for males than females (Katz, Kling, and Liebman, 2001; Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn, 2003a, 2003b).”
The Dynamics of Unhealthy Housing in the UK: A Panel Data Analysis (2008, background): “…studies have also revealed the influence of pollution and noise level on mental health (Gomez-Jacinto & Hombrados-Mendieta, 2002; Halpern, 1995; Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2003), and it has been argued that stressful housing conditions can aggravate pre-existing psychiatric pathologies (Evans,…”
Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2015, background): “also has been shown that moving to less disadvantaged neighborhoods appears to decrease psychological distress.(186)”
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations (2024, methodology): “The classic example of an RCT to lift people out of neighbour hood poverty is Moving To Opportunity , conducted in five US cities, in which families in highpoverty neighbourhoods were randomized to receive housing vouchers to move to lowpoverty neighbourhoods 375 .”