Better to Grow Up Poor in a Richer Place? Social Housing, Neighbourhood Comparisons, and English Teenagers’ Well-Being

Franco Bonomi Bezzo () and Pieter Vanhuysse
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Franco Bonomi Bezzo: La Statale, University of Milan
Pieter Vanhuysse: University of Southern Denmark

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2024, vol. 25, issue 3, No 5, 20 pages

Abstract: Abstract How does being comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged within their neighbourhood affect the lived experiences of young teenagers? We explore this question on a sample of 13 to 15-year-old teenagers living in social housing in England. We explore three major domains of young teenagers’ well-being: (a) their sense of generally leading a bad life, (b) conflictual family interactions, and (c) unhappy social interactions with their peers. We find that living in a social housing estate within a less deprived neighbourhood does not negatively affect teenagers’ general sense of leading a bad life and does not increase conflictual family interactions. But it does make them less likely to report unhappy social interactions with their peers, indicating a positive effect of social mixing at the neighbourhood level.

Keywords: Well-being; Life-satisfaction; Young teenagers; Neighbourhood deprivation; Reference group comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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