Sociology & Anthropology · Urban & Rural Sociology

Neighbourhood Effects

A topic within Urban & Rural Sociology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.

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Paper1997

Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy

Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush & Felton Earls

Finds that a neighbourhood's willingness to intervene for the common good -- collective efficacy -- predicts its violent crime rate better than poverty or racial composition alone, shifting the explanation for neighbourhood crime from who lives there to how neighbours relate to each other.

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Paper2018

The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility

Raj Chetty & Nathaniel Hendren

Uses millions of families who moved between commuting zones to show that the neighbourhood a child grows up in has a causal effect on their adult income, and that the effect accumulates with each additional year spent there during childhood.

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Reading on Neighbourhood Effects

Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy

The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility

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