Moving to become healthier?
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 ev...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-24a6b35e12f94aea916a32a9ca01d05f2022-12-21T23:45:31ZengElsevierSSM: Population Health2352-82732020-04-0110Moving to become healthier?Edvard Johansson0Petri Böckerman1Seppo Koskinen2Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Corresponding author.School of Economics and Business, University of Jyväskylä, School of Economics and Business, Finland; Labour Institute for Economic Research, Finland; IZA Institute of Labor Economics, GermanyNational Institute for Health and Welfare, FinlandThis 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319301776Self-reported healthMigrationPlace effects |
| spellingShingle | Edvard Johansson Petri Böckerman Seppo Koskinen Moving to become healthier? SSM: Population Health Self-reported health Migration Place effects |
| title | Moving to become healthier? |
| title_full | Moving to become healthier? |
| title_fullStr | Moving to become healthier? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Moving to become healthier? |
| title_short | Moving to become healthier? |
| title_sort | moving to become healthier |
| topic | Self-reported health Migration Place effects |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319301776 |
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