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How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods?
Kiessling, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...
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The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children : Evidence from a Danish Social Housing Experiment
Billings, Stephen B.; Hoekstra, Mark; Pons Rotger, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about which neighborhood characteristics are most important, and at what scale neighborhood effects operate. By using the random assignment of public housing along with...
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The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences : a follow-up from birth to age 15
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such cross-sectional measures serve as reliable proxies for children's long-run neighborhood conditions...
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Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects
Hedman, Lina - 2012
Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of … neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely the current neighbourhood, but also the … neighbourhood history of an individual that is important in determining an individual's outcomes. The effect of long-term exposure …
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Ethnic differences in duration and timing of exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage during childhood
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e.g., point-in-time and cumulative measures of exposure),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716179
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The effects of gentrification on the well-being and opportunity of original resident adults and children
Brummet, Quentin; Reed, Davin - 2019
We use new longitudinal census microdata to provide the first causal evidence of how gentrification affects a broad set of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are not made observably worse off and neighborhood change...
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Experienced and inherited disadvantage : a longitudinal study of early adulthood neighbourhood careers of siblings
Manley, David; Ham, Maarten van; Hedman, Lina - 2018
. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the … neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the neighbourhoods of their childhood and parental characteristics. To better … neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home. We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798188
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Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage During Childhood
Kleinepier, Tom - 2017
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e.g., point-in-time and cumulative measures of exposure),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948644
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Do Neighborhood Parks/Playgrounds Reduce Childhood Obesity?
Fan, Maoyong; Jin, Yanhong - 2015
Using the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health data,we find a statistically and economically significant effect of neighborhood parks and playgrounds on childhood obesity based on covariate matching estimators. The park/playground effect depends on gender, age, race, household income,...
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Neighborhoods matter : assessing the evidence for place effects
Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the … 35 (2021) 4, pp. 197-222
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