Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings: Comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales

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We investigate the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on individual subjective and objective wellbeing for England and Wales. Our identification strategy combines rich longitudinal information on individual characteristics, family background and initial job conditions with panel data estimators and sample restrictions, which address residential sorting bias and neighbourhood-specific confounding effects. Our findings suggest that the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on life satisfaction and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that the results overall do not vary by the bespoke spatial scale used to operationalize neighbourhoods.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2020-01

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
• Subject: neighbourhood effects ; life satisfaction ; wages ; bespoke neighbourhoods

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Knies, Gundi ; Melo, Patricia C. ; Zhang, Min
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/227782
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET