Is it who you are or where you live? Residential segregation and racial gaps in childhood asthma

Diane Alexander; Janet Currie

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Is it who you are or where you live? Residential segregation and racial gaps in childhood asthma

Diane Alexander Janet Currie

Journal of Health Economics Vol. 55 pp. 186-200 · Elsevier BV

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Published: Sep 01, 2017
Vol/Issue: 55
Pages: 186-200
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Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Director of the Program on Children, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Diane Alexander, Janet Currie (2017). Is it who you are or where you live? Residential segregation and racial gaps in childhood asthma. Journal of Health Economics, 55, 186-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.07.003

Is it who you are or where you live? Residential segregation and racial gaps in childhood asthma

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