Tenant Right-to-Counsel and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York, New York
Kathryn M. Leifheit, Katherine L. Chen, Nathaniel W. Anderson, Cecile Yama, Achyuth Sriram, Craig Evan Pollack, Alison Gemmill, Frederick J. Zimmerman · 2024
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Description
Kathryn Leifheit and co-authors ask whether a right to a free lawyer in eviction court lifts birth health in New York City. The city launched the first such right in the United States in 2017, for low-income tenants in set zip codes. Loss of a home in pregnancy has been tied to early birth and low birth weight. Their 2024 study uses the step-wise spread of the right as a fair test.
The set held 260,493 births to parents on state health aid from 2016 to 2020. About 17 percent of births fell in zip codes where the right was live in pregnancy. Those births showed small but firm drops in low birth weight and early birth next to matched codes. The drops held for the combined mark as well. The team reads eviction court help as a health act, not just a legal act.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kathryn M. Leifheit, Katherine L. Chen, Nathaniel W. Anderson, Cecile Yama, Achyuth Sriram, Craig Evan Pollack, Alison Gemmill, Frederick J. Zimmerman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |