neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families … problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …

students. It isnot clear, however, that these differences in attendance are caused by income itselfrather than by parental … needed as families potentially differ in unobservable waysthat are correlated with both income and attendance. In this paper … we use families withseveral children to correct for unobserved time-invariant family fixed effects. Ourresults suggest …