Harding, David J.
[Author]
;
Winship, Christopher
[Other];
Kling, Jeffrey R.
[Other];
Sanbonmatsu, Lisa
[Other];
Gennetian, Lisa
[Other]National Bureau of Economic Research
Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education Outcomes
: Setting the Stage for Future Research
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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2010
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w16055
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1 Online-Ressource
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English
DOI:
10.3386/w16055
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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