Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence?
Neighbourhood effects studies typically investigate the negative effects on individual outcomes of living in areas with concentrated poverty. The literature rarely pays attention to the potential beneficial effects of living in areas with concentrated affluence. This poverty paradigm might hinder ou...
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| author | Agata A Troost Maarten van Ham David J Manley |
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| description | Neighbourhood effects studies typically investigate the negative effects on individual outcomes of living in areas with concentrated poverty. The literature rarely pays attention to the potential beneficial effects of living in areas with concentrated affluence. This poverty paradigm might hinder our understanding of spatial context effects. Our paper uses individual geocoded data from the Netherlands to compare the effects of exposure to neighbourhood affluence and poverty on educational attainment within the same statistical models. Using bespoke neighbourhoods, we create individual neighbourhood histories which allow us to distinguish exposure effects from early childhood and adolescence. We follow an entire cohort born in 1995 and we measure their educational level in 2018. The results show that, in the Netherlands, neighbourhood affluence has a stronger effect on educational attainment than neighbourhood poverty for all the time periods studied. Additionally, interactions with parental education indicate that children with higher educated parents are not affected by neighbourhood poverty. These results highlight the need for more studies on the effects of concentrated affluence and can inspire anti-segregation policies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d867eedd38134644835678ca61ce46262023-04-21T05:35:03ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01183e028192810.1371/journal.pone.0281928Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence?Agata A TroostMaarten van HamDavid J ManleyNeighbourhood effects studies typically investigate the negative effects on individual outcomes of living in areas with concentrated poverty. The literature rarely pays attention to the potential beneficial effects of living in areas with concentrated affluence. This poverty paradigm might hinder our understanding of spatial context effects. Our paper uses individual geocoded data from the Netherlands to compare the effects of exposure to neighbourhood affluence and poverty on educational attainment within the same statistical models. Using bespoke neighbourhoods, we create individual neighbourhood histories which allow us to distinguish exposure effects from early childhood and adolescence. We follow an entire cohort born in 1995 and we measure their educational level in 2018. The results show that, in the Netherlands, neighbourhood affluence has a stronger effect on educational attainment than neighbourhood poverty for all the time periods studied. Additionally, interactions with parental education indicate that children with higher educated parents are not affected by neighbourhood poverty. These results highlight the need for more studies on the effects of concentrated affluence and can inspire anti-segregation policies.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281928 |
| spellingShingle | Agata A Troost Maarten van Ham David J Manley Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence? PLoS ONE |
| title | Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence? |
| title_full | Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence? |
| title_fullStr | Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence? |
| title_short | Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence? |
| title_sort | neighbourhood effects on educational attainment what matters more exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281928 |
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