Journal article
How Does Household Residential Instability Influence Child Health Outcomes? A Quantile Analysis
Emma Baker, Thien Anh Pham Ngoc, Lyrian Daniel, Rebecca Bentley
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH | MDPI | Published : 2019
Abstract
At the core of housing and welfare research is a premise that stable residential environments are important to children's health and development. The relationship between housing stability and health outcomes for children is, however, complex; stable housing situations are sometimes associated with poorer health outcomes, and some children may be more or less resilient to residential instability. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) dataset enables us to longitudinally follow the housing and health of more than 10,000 children and their families. We employ a quantile analysis technique, a currently underutilized tool for testing associations across the distribution of an outc..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was undertaken as part of a University Interdisciplinary Grant. R.B. is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT150100131).