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Disentangling Neighborhood Effects in Person-Context Research: An Application of a Neighborhood-Based Group Decomposition

This paper proposes a framework to assess how compositional differences at the neighborhood level contribute to the moderating effect of neighborhood context on the association between individual risk-factors and delinquency. We propose a neighborhood-based group decomposition to partition person-context interactions into their constituent components. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we demonstrate the extent to which variation in the association between impulsivity and delinquency can be attributed to (1) differences in mean-levels of impulsivity and violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods and (2) differences in coefficients across neighborhoods. The moderating effect of neighborhood disadvantage can be attributed primarily to the stronger effect of impulsivity on violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods, while differences in average levels of violence and impulsivity account for 14 percent and 2 percent of the observed difference, respectively.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9793

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Mathematical Methods
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
person-context research
neighborhood effects
decomposition

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Vogel, Matt
van Ham, Maarten
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Vogel, Matt
  • van Ham, Maarten
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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