Do the benefits of homeownership on mental health vary by race and poverty status? An application of doubly robust estimation for causal inference

被引：0

作者：

Chen, Jun-Hong ^{[1
]}

Jones, Dylan ^{[2
]}

Lee, Jihye ^{[2
]}

Yan, Yufu ^{[3
]}

Hsieh, Wan-Jung ^{[2
,4
]}

Huang, Chieh-Hsun ^{[2
,5
]}

Yang, Yuanyuan ^{[2
]}

Wu, Chi-Fang ^{[6
]}

Jonson-Reid, Melissa ^{[2
]}

Drake, Brett ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] St Louis Univ, Sch Social Work, Tegeler Hall,3550 Lindell Blvd, St Louis, MO 63103 USA

[2] Washington Univ St Louis, George Warren Brown Sch Social Work, 1 Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[3] Washington Univ St Louis, McKelvey Sch Engn, 1 Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[4] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Social Work, 1,Sect 4,Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan

[5] Tamkang Univ, Grad Inst Educ Psychol & Counseling, Yingzhuan Rd, New Taipei City 251301, Taiwan

[6] Univ Illinois, Sch Social Work, 1010 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

来源：

SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE | 2024年 / 351卷

关键词：

Homeownership; Mental health; Race disparities; Psychological distress; Poverty status; Propensity score weighting; Doubly robust estimation; Causal inference; PANEL; HOME;

D O I：

10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116958

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

While empirical studies have observed that homeownership is associated with improved mental health conditions, research indicates that this relationship might vary by race. Moreover, such a White -Black disparity in the impacts of homeownership on mental health could be complexed by poverty status, as maintaining one 's homeownership could be a financial burden for people living in poverty status, defined by the US official poverty threshold. We add to the existing literature by analyzing the impacts of homeownership on psychological distress, simultaneously disaggregating by race and poverty status using survey data from the Panel Study on Income Dynamics from the 2017 and 2019 waves (N = 7059). Propensity score weighting and doubly robust estimation are applied to estimate causal inference for the impact of 2017 homeownership on 2019 psychological distress using negative binomial models. First , we found the impacts of homeownership on reducing psychological distress are significant for White Americans, not for Black Americans. Second , we found such a WhiteBlack disparity is only observable for populations not living in poverty. On the other hand, for populations living in poverty, homeownership no longer lowers psychological distress for either race. Findings suggest that financial support and mental health support are needy to address inequality in the impacts of homeownership on mental health, which could simultaneously vary by poverty status and race. Implications are discussed.

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