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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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Disentangling neighborhood effects in person-context research : an application of a neighborhood-based group decomposition

Vogel, Matt; Ham, Maarten van - 2016

This paper proposes a framework to assess how compositional differences at the neighborhood level contribute to the moderating effect of neighborhood context on the association between individual risk-factors and delinquency. We propose a neighborhood-based group decomposition to partition...

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The local determinants of crime victimization

Hémet, Camille - 2014

This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French victimization survey. The very local nature of the data enables me to tackle the endogenous location selection issue: once I control for the characteristics of a larger area into...

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...

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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014

importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … residential turnover on student test score gains. We show that high neighbourhood turnover reduces value added for students who …

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Sick of your poor neighborhood? : quasi-experimental evidence on neighborhood effects on health

Hasager, Linea; Jørgensen, Mia Herløv - 2024

Does living in a low-income neighborhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighborhood effects on health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986 to 1998. Refugees allocated to low-income neighborhoods had...

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Lessons learned from the largest tenure mix operation in the world : right to buy in the United Kingdom

Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2013

RTB are by no means solely beneficial. -- Right to Buy ; tenure mix ; neighbourhood effects ; urban renewal ; residential …

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The Zoning Strait-Jacket : The Freezing of American Neighborhoods of Single-Family Houses

Ellickson, Robert C. - 2020

Municipal zoning practices profoundly shape urban life in the United States. In regions such as Silicon Valley, regulatory barriers to residential construction have helped raise house prices to roughly ten times the national median. These astronomic prices have prompted some households to move...

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Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth : evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment

Kling, Jeffrey R.; Ludwig, Jens; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2004

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Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth : evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment

Kling, Jeffrey R.; Ludwig, Jens; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 120 (2005) 1, pp. 87-130

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