Citation
Goodwin, Julia (2019). Impact of Neighborhood Quality on Mental and Physical Health in African Americans: Evidence for the “Skin-Deep” Hypothesis.
Population Association of America annual meeting. Austin, TX.
Abstract
Previous work has found evidence for the “skin-deep” hypothesis: the upwardly mobile from disadvantaged backgrounds are psychosocially no different from their high SES counterparts, but fare worse in health outcomes compared to their non-mobile counterparts, which researchers hypothesize is due to exposures to stress. There is little research on the effects of change in neighborhood quality on health outcomes, which begs the question: when using more direct measures of neighborhood characteristics to track social mobility, does the skin-deep phenomena still hold? Using data from Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I find evidence for the skin-deep hypothesis for non-Hispanic blacks: those who lived in disadvantaged neighborhoods at Wave I and less disadvantaged neighborhoods at Wave IV had elevated levels of c-reactive protein — a marker for persistent, physiological stress — compared to their counterparts who lived in non-disadvantaged neighborhoods at Waves I and IV.
URL
http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/abstracts/192279Reference Type
Conference proceeding
Book Title
Population Association of America annual meeting
Author(s)
Goodwin, Julia
Year Published
2019
City of Publication
Austin, TX
Reference ID
7299