Are neighborhood ~ health associations causal? Large within-person design says no. https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/180/8/776/2739293/Are-Neighborhood-Health-Associations-Causal-A-10 …pic.twitter.com/AV3hLkB9QO
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are aware of similar studies for the US?
No, but I expect these sort of findings to generalize very well. The cause of the confounds is the same: H>0 of 'environments' @RCAFDM
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The design is easy to replicate. Find any large longitudinal dataset with health and measures of neighborhood.
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not sure how large the regional/group level behavioral differences are in australia. i'm obviously hbd-aware, but +
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i think large enough group differences (innate or cultural) generate some externalities. may be hard to identify in +
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countries with smaller between group/region differences.
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waiting for replication on this: genetic differences in sensitivity to pollutionhttp://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/11/099770 …
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