Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence?

Agata A. Troost; Maarten van Ham; David J. Manley

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281928

Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence?

Agata A. Troost, Maarten van Ham, David J. Manley

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	e0281928
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	18
Issue number	3 March
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281928
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2023
Externally published	Yes

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council (https://erc.europa.eu/) under the European Union\u2019s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects; awarded to M. v. H.), as well as from European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (https://wayback.archive-it.org/12090/20220124075100/ https:/ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/) under Grant Agreement n. 727097 (RELOCAL; awarded to M. v. H.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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European Research Council
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Seventh Framework Programme	727097, FP/2007-2013, 615159

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