Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health

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Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. / Hasager, Linea; Jørgensen, Mia Renee Herløv.

2024.

Publikation: Working paper › Forskning

Harvard

Hasager, L & Jørgensen, MRH 2024 'Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health'. <https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/16949/sick-of-your-poor-neighborhood-quasi-experimental-evidence-on-neighborhood-effects-on-health>

APA

Hasager, L., & Jørgensen, M. R. H. (2024). Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/16949/sick-of-your-poor-neighborhood-quasi-experimental-evidence-on-neighborhood-effects-on-health

Vancouver

Hasager L, Jørgensen MRH. Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. 2024 apr.

Author

Hasager, Linea ; Jørgensen, Mia Renee Herløv. / Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health. 2024.

Bibtex

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