团队博士研究生李桥鸽有关“我国城镇家庭住房不可支付性对青少年抑郁的影响”的研究正式发表于Cities
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发布时间：2025-02-25
发布时间：2025-02-25
文章标题：团队博士研究生李桥鸽有关“我国城镇家庭住房不可支付性对青少年抑郁的影响”的研究正式发表于Cities
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近日，博士研究生李桥歌有关“Housing unaffordability and adolescent depression in urban China”的合作研究被城市研究领域国际权威期刊Cities (IF=6.0, CiteScore=11.2)录用。该研究系统地分析我国城镇居民家庭住房不可支付性对青少年抑郁的影响及潜在作用机制。聂鹏教授为该研究第一作者和通讯作者，德国霍恩海姆大学Alfonso Sousa-Poza教授为该研究的合作者。
Abstract
The current body of research on the connection between housing unaffordability and adolescent mental health is limited and predominantly centered on Western countries, with a notable absence of evidence from Asian economies, particularly China. Using the 2010-2020 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on depression among Chinese urban adolescents aged 8-17. Using fixed effects and instrumental variable estimations, we show that housing unaffordability leads to higher levels of depression, with more pronounced impacts for those living in very poor housing quality, residing in the Central region and provinces with high-Confucian influences. These results are robust to alternative housing unaffordability and depression measures, and various IV methods. Our mechanism analysis reveals that this housing unaffordability-depression relation is mediated by lower cognitive ability and adolescent-parent relationship. Policies that promote the development of affordable housing, particularly through public, low-rent, and subsidized housing initiatives, could serve as an effective means to enhance adolescent mental health.
JEL Classification: D63, I10, I12, R21
Keywords: housing unaffordability; adolescent depression; parent-child relationship; cognitive ability; urban China
网址链接：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105855
引用格式：Nie, P., Li, Q.G. and Sousa-Poza, A. (2025). Housing unaffordability and adolescent depression in urban China. Cities, 160: 105855.