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DTSTAMP:20190522T112922Z
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SUMMARY:CoDE Seminar: Neighbourhood Effects on Individual Wellbeing
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DESCRIPTION:There is a long history of research in the role of place in s
 haping individuals’ economic and social life chances\, and the number of
  empirical papers on this topic is on the rise. Albeit\, there is consid
 erable debate whether neighbourhood effects exist\, how important they a
 re and how we can measure them. Although there has been some progress in
  addressing the paramount challenges of selection bias and unobserved he
 terogeneity since the seminal methodological reviews from the early 2000
 s\, progress is concentrated among studies that focus on objective wellb
 eing outcomes. There also still is a stark tendency for quantitative pap
 ers to describe statistically significant associations between neighbour
 hood contexts and individual outcomes without testing (or specifying) th
 e causal mechanisms that may lie behind observed neighbourhood effects\,
  and this is more prevalent among studies that focus on objective wellbe
 ing outcomes\; and studies use a wide range of spatial scales\, with tho
 se looking at subjective outcomes focussing\, on average\, on more immed
 iate and sociologically more meaningful units\, and being somewhat more 
 specific about the causal mechanisms involved. In this paper we present 
 a longitudinal analysis of neighbourhood deprivation effects on individu
 al wellbeing\, exploiting data from the first six waves of Understanding
  Society linked with longitudinally harmonised Census data for 2001 and 
 2011 for bespoke neighbourhoods. We focus on prominent subjective and ob
 jective wellbeing outcomes (e.g.\, life satisfaction\, mental health and
  physical health\, and hourly wage) and examine whether the effect of ne
 ighbourhood deprivation on wellbeing may be driven by unobserved individ
 ual characteristics and neighbourhood choice. Preliminary results sugges
 t that area deprivation is important for all wellbeing outcomes but this
  is mostly explained by unobserved individual factors (such as residenti
 al choice). There is no discernible difference in the neighbourhood effe
 ct across different neighbourhood scales (here: aggregations of UK Censu
 s Output Areas covering from 500 to 10k people around the respondents’ h
 ome postcode). More effect heterogeneity – both across outcomes and scal
 es – is found when unobserved neighbourhood characteristics are addition
 ally considered.  
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Room 2.07\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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