An Alternative Approach to Addressing Selection Into and Out of Social Settings

Patrick Sharkey

Sociological Methods & Research, 2012, vol. 41, issue 2, 251-293

Abstract: This article develops a method to estimate the impact of change in a particular social setting, the residential neighborhood, that is designed to address nonrandom selection into a neighborhood and nonrandom selection out of a neighborhood. Utilizing matching to confront selection into neighborhood environments and instrumental variables to confront selection out of changing neighborhoods, the method is applied to assess the effect of a decline in neighborhood concentrated disadvantage on the economic fortunes of African American children living within changing neighborhoods. Substantive findings indicate that a decline in neighborhood concentrated disadvantage during childhood leads to increases in adult earnings and income, but has no effects on educational attainment or other social outcomes.

Keywords: neighborhood change; selection bias; matching; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0049124112452391

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