Quantifying neighbourhood effects : frontiers and perspectives / edited by Jorg Blasius, Jurgen Friedrichs, George Galster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Quantifying neighbourhood effects / Jörg Blasius, Jürgen Friedrichs and George Galster -- What mix matters? Exploring the relationships between individuals' incomes and different measures of thier neighbourhood context / Roger Andersson ... [and others] -- Mixed tenure communities and neighbourhood quality / Ade Kearns and Phil Mason -- Homeownership, poverty and educational achievemnet: school effects as neighbourhood effects / Glen Bramley and Noah Ko. Karley -- The influence of neighborhood poverty during childhood on fertility, education, and earnings outcomes / George Galster ... [and others] -- Internal heterogeneity of a deprived urban area and its impact on residents' perception of deviance / Jörg Blasius and Jürgen Friedrichs / The effects of neighbourhood poverty on adolescent problem behaviours: a multi-level analysis differenctiated by gender and ethnicity / Dietrich Oberwittler -- The socio-cultural integration of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands: identifying neighbourhood effects on multiple integration outcomes / Mérove Gijsberts and Jaco Dagevos -- Intergenerational neighborhood-type mobility: examining differences between blacks and whites / Thomas P. Vartanian, Page Walker Buck and Philip Gleason.

Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong and independent effect upon the well-being and life-chances of individuals. The adequacy of the evidence base to support this position has been the subject of spirited debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to this policy-relevant discussion by presenting new scholarship from many countries that rigorously quantifies various sorts of neighbourhood effects through the use of cutting-edge social scientific techniques. The secondary purpose of this book is to introduce these techniques to a wider array of housing and planning researchers and to show how a variety of disciplines have offered insightful, synergistic perspectives. Research on neighbourhood effects has over the last 15 years led to a body of knowledge extending far beyond the sociological urban research where it originated. The problem of quantifying neighbourhood effects and the use of associated methodologies (like multi-level analysis, instrumental variables) has attracted scholars from criminology, sociology, social geography, economics and health science, and thus serves as a critical locus for interdisciplinary scholarship.