Unpacking neighborhood influences on education outcomes
Subtitle: setting the stage for future research
By: David J. Harding ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16055; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16055.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "We motivate future neighborhood research through a simple model that considers youth educational outcomes as a function of neighborhood context, neighborhood exposure, individual vulnerability to neighborhood effects, and non-neighborhood educational inputs -- with a focus on effect heterogeneity.  Research using this approach would require three steps.  First, researchers would need to shift focus away from broad theories of neighborhood effects and examine the specific mechanisms through which the characteristics of a neighborhood might affect an individual.  Second, neighborhood research would need new and far more nuanced data.  Third, more research designs would be needed that can unpack the causal effects, if any, of specific neighborhood characteristics as they operate through well-specified mechanisms"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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