Brown Bag Talk: Connor Sheehan, Arizona State University

When

noon, Feb. 21, 2020

Where

Neighborhood Poverty Histories and Health across the Life Course

Research on the health effects of neighborhood poverty has relied primarily on cross-sectional data on neighborhoods. But neighborhoods change over time and residents’ health may be shaped through long-term processes of change such as the concentration of poverty. I show how traditionally used cross-sectional measures of neighborhood poverty may obscure the relationship between neighborhoods and health across the life-course. Using multiple decades of census tract poverty data and a survey of mothers and their young children in California, I show how long-term neighborhood poverty trajectories are associated with obesity among the mothers and inadequate sleep among the children. These results suggest future research on neighborhood determents of health across the life-course should utilize measures that capture the dynamics of neighborhood change.

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