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Moving to become healthier?

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: This paper examines individuals' health and whether it improves when individuals move from a region with poorer health on average to a region with better health on average. We used data from Finland, which is a country with large regional differences in health behaviours and outcomes. We found no evidence that moving from a less healthy region to a healthier region would have any significant effect on the health of individuals who move compared with the health of other individuals. We also examined the potential heterogeneity in the analysed relationships. We found evidence of a relationship between moving itself and health improvements, but this generally true only for our subsample of individuals who had only average or poorer health before moving.

Source: SSM - Population Health

DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100528

Authors: Edvard Johansson, Petri Böckerman, Seppo Koskinen

Institutions: Åbo Akademi University, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Language: English

Topic: Health disparities and outcomes

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $882