Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty

Agata A Troost, Heleen J Janssen and Maarten van Ham
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Agata A Troost: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Heleen J Janssen: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Maarten van Ham: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Urban Studies, 2023, vol. 60, issue 4, 655-672

Abstract: Studies of neighbourhood effects increasingly research the neighbourhood histories of individuals. It is difficult to compare the outcomes of these studies as they all use different datasets, conceptualisations and operationalisations of neighbourhood characteristics and outcome variables. This paper contributes to the literature by studying educational attainment and comparing the effects of the timing, accumulation, duration and sequencing of exposure to neighbourhood poverty. We use longitudinal register data to study the population of children born in the Netherlands in 1995 and follow them until the age of 23. Our findings show that it is important to separate the early adult years (age 18–22) when constructing individual histories of exposure to neighbourhood poverty. We find that the effect of exposure to neighbourhood deprivation on educational attainment during adolescence is slightly stronger than the effect of exposure during childhood. We conclude that the observed relationship between neighbourhood poverty and educational attainment depends on how exposure to the neighbourhood effect is conceptualised and measured; choosing just one dimension could lead to under- or overestimation of the importance of exposure to neighbourhood poverty.

Keywords: education; inequality; neighbourhood; neighbourhood histories; poverty/exclusion; 教育; ä¸ å¹³ç­‰; 街区; è¡—åŒºåŽ†å ²; è´«å›°/排斥 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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