There is a strong belief that living in deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect over and above the effect of individual characteristics on residents health, labour market outcomes, and social values; so called neighbourhood effects. This belief has a major impact on urban, neighbourhood and housing policies designed to tackle poverty and to improve the lives of residents in deprived neighbourhoods.
This website and the associated ESRC Seminar Series promote debate about neighbourhood effects research and the evidence base for Area Based Initiatives.
The main objectives of the Seminar Series are to review theories about how neighbourhoods might shape individual lives; to increase our understanding of methods suitable to analyse neighbourhood effects free of bias and the limitations of these methods; to identify potential data sources and data needs; to assess the current state of robust evidence on neighbourhood effects; to bring together researchers...more
Julius Wilson is generally seen as the starting point of the interest in neighbourhood effects. According to Wilson "[t]he central problem of the underclass is joblessness reinforced by increasing social isolation in impoverished neighbourhoods". Wilson argued that structural 'concentration effects' arise from living in deprived neighbourhoods, which might negatively affect residents' access to job information network systems. ...more
This website and the seminar series are funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and co-funded by the Centre for Housing Research (CHR), University of St Andrews. The seminar series are a joint initiative by six researchers from the Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Manchester. For more information email to mail@neighbourhoodeffects.org. Click on one of the names below to get...more
NeighbourhoodEffects.org is a Centre for Housing Research project hosting a collaborative ESRC Seminar Series run by:
Centre for Housing Research, The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LZ. Email: mail@neighbourhoodeffects.org
