# The Effect of Neighborhood Change on Health and Well-Being

> **NIH NIH R01** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $415,619

## Abstract

Project Summary
This is a study of how neighborhoods are changing their racial/ethnic and income composition as a result of
mobility choices made by individual families. The consequent changes in segregation and disparate local
environments for people of different race, ethnicity, and income have substantial potential consequences for
their health and well-being. The study takes advantage of access to a new data resource – linked records of as
many as 90% of enumerated Americans in 2000 and 2010 – to pursue two main aims: Aim 1) To assess the
balance of flows of persons into and out of neighborhoods that are associated with specific neighborhood-level
changes in race/ethnicity and income levels that we observe, such as increasing concentration of poverty or
growing racial/ethnic diversity. Aim 2) To model the selectivity of people's locations in 2000 and their post-
2000 movements in neighborhoods, based both on how places appeared in 2000 and how they were changing
in the next decade.
The proposed study builds on a growing body of research that breaks with binary conceptualizations of
segregation (e.g., the longstanding emphasis on the white-black divide or a simple distinction between poor
and non-poor neighborhoods) to acknowledge the multigroup composition of metropolitan America and the
variety of kinds of social class changes that are occurring. It will make use of confidential individual-level data
in a Census Research Data Center (RDC) that has been linked between the 2000 and 2010 censuses to track
changes in composition in changing neighborhoods (decomposing net change into numbers of persons in each
group who arrived, left, or stayed). It will also to identify the personal/household characteristics associated
with each type of mobility.
This study of neighborhood change and residential mobility is highly relevant to major contemporary social
concerns related to persistent minority segregation and increasing neighborhood diversity. Research
conducted in the RDC will demonstrate the value of the Census Bureau's investment in record linkage and
increase the likelihood of continued efforts of this kind.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10131029
- **Project number:** 5R01HD095653-03
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** John R Logan
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $415,619
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-03-01 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10131029

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10131029, The Effect of Neighborhood Change on Health and Well-Being (5R01HD095653-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10131029. Licensed CC0.

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