Examining the Impact of Pandemic Eviction Prevention Policies on Racial Inequalities in Mortality

项目摘要 我们建议评估预防大流行驱逐政策对个人和地区死亡的影响。 费率，利用政策随时间和地点的变化来获得对关系的新见解 在驱逐和死亡之间。在过去几十年里，停滞不前的工资和不断上涨的租金导致了 美国史无前例的住房成本负担，进而迫使数百万租户面临 每年都有被驱逐的威胁。疫情加剧了这场危机，导致灾难性的就业和工资损失， 尤其是对于黑人、西班牙裔和女性租房者来说，他们已经经历了最高的住房率 不安全感。为了防止驱逐激增，联邦、州和地方政策制定者制定了一系列 防止驱逐政策，最突出的是暂停驱逐和紧急租赁援助。这些 全国各地的政策在实施方式和时间上各不相同，造成了巨大的外生差异 有被驱逐的风险。我们利用这种差异来评估驱逐对死亡率和不平等的影响 死亡率。通过这样做，我们提供了对防止驱逐政策促进健康的潜力的洞察 公平。我们的项目有三个目标：1)我们通过以下方式检查驱逐申请对各种原因造成的成人死亡率的影响 年龄、种族/民族和性别，使用个人驱逐备案记录和人口普查局的独特联系 微数据。我们还估计了防止驱逐政策挽救的生命数量和项目死亡率。 已经全面实施了更多的保护措施。2)我们分析了驱逐的影响 使用差异和差异框架制定县级死亡率预防政策。我们分析如何 交错取消暂缓驱逐令(2020年)和支付紧急状况津贴(2021-22年)影响到所有原因、原因-- 具体和特定年龄的成人死亡率，重点是这些地区的种族/民族和性别差异 联想。3)利用深度访谈数据，探索防止拆迁政策的亲身体验 收集了两个不同政策背景下的不同租户样本。我们的项目结合了 多种方法的优势。我们在个人层面的驱逐备案和死亡记录之间的独特联系 使我们能够准确估计由于防止驱逐政策而避免的死亡人数。我们还利用 检验这些政策对县级死亡率指标的因果影响的自然实验， 捕捉潜在的溢出效应。我们的定性数据有助于阐明这些问题背后的机制 影响。住房政策在造成种族不平等方面发挥了重要作用。我们的项目确定了 住房政策的潜力，以纠正这些危害和促进卫生公平。

Project Summary We propose to evaluate the effects of pandemic eviction prevention policies on individual- and area-level death rates, leveraging variation in policies over time and between locations to gain new insight into the relationship between eviction and mortality. Stagnant wages and rising rents over the last several decades have resulted in unprecedented levels of housing cost burden in the U.S. and, in turn, forced millions of renters to face the threat of eviction each year. The pandemic worsened this crisis, resulting in catastrophic job and wage loss, especially for Black, Hispanic, and female renters who already experienced the highest rates of housing insecurity. To prevent a surge in evictions, federal, state, and local policymakers established a range of eviction prevention policies, most notably eviction moratoria and emergency rental assistance (ERA). These policies varied across the country in how and when they were implemented, creating large exogenous variation in eviction risk. We exploit that variation to evaluate the effects of eviction on mortality and inequalities in mortality. In so doing, we provide insight into the potential for eviction prevention policies to advance health equity. Our project has three aims: 1) We examine the effect of eviction filings on all-cause adult mortality by age, race/ethnicity, and gender using a unique linkage of individual eviction filing records and Census Bureau microdata. We also estimate the number of lives saved by eviction prevention policies and project mortality gains had more protective measures been comprehensively implemented. 2) We analyze the effects of eviction prevention policies on county-level mortality using a difference-and-differences framework. We analyze how the staggered lifting of eviction moratoria (2020) and disbursal of ERA (2021-22) affected all-cause, cause- specific, and age-specific adult mortality, with a focus on racial/ethnic and gender variations in these associations. 3) We explore the lived experience of eviction prevention policies using in-depth interview data collected with a diverse sample of renters across two distinct policy landscapes. Our project combines the strengths of multiple approaches. Our unique linkage of individual-level eviction-filing and mortality records allows us to produce precise estimates of deaths averted due to eviction prevention policies. We also leverage natural experiments to examine the causal impact of these policies on county-level measures of mortality, capturing potential spillover effects. And our qualitative data help to clarify mechanisms underlying these impacts. Housing policy has played a significant role in producing racial inequalities. Our project identifies the potential for housing policies to redress these harms and advance health equity.