The Long-Run Consequences of Living in a Poor Neighborhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19604682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Oreopoulos (0000-0003-4957-4972, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1533-1575 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Quarterly Journal of Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5533 • E-ISSN: 1531-4650 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1162/003355303322552865 |
| OpenAlex | W2058496388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 145 |
| References cited | 28 |
Many social scientists presume that the quality of the neighborhood to which children are exposed affects a variety of long-run social outcomes. I examine the effect on long-run labor market outcomes of adults who were assigned, when young, to substantially different public housing projects in Toronto. Administrative data are matched to public housing addresses to track children from the program to when they are more than 30 years old. The main finding is that, while living conditions and exposure to crime differ substantially across projects, neighborhood quality plays little role in determining a youth's eventual earnings, unemployment likelihood, and welfare participation. Living in contrasting housing projects cannot explain large variances in labor market outcomes but family differences, as measured by sibling outcome correlations, account for up to 30 percent of the total variance in the data
Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Public assistance · Public housing · Quality (philosophy) · Sibling · Unemployment · Variance (accounting) · Variety (cybernetics) · Welfare · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing Market and Economics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Context disadvantage and residential mobility from early life into adulthood
Spatial Foundations of Inequality
How Living in the ‘Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth
The diverse pathways of social inequality transmission in the neighbourhood
Neighborhoods Matter
What drives racial segregation? New evidence using Census microdata
Composition sociale du voisinage et échec scolaire
Inside the Black Box of Ability Peer Effects
The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes
Neighborhood Effects
Inequality and Opportunity
Social networks, role models, peer effects, and aspirations
Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Peers at Work
Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Development
Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income in American Neighborhoods
Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults
New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education
Social networks and health service utilization
A National Study of Neighborhood Safety, Outdoor Play, Television Viewing, and Obesity in Preschool Children
Does Growing Up in a High Crime Neighborhood Affect Youth Criminal Behavior?
The effects of neighborhood density and street connectivity on walking behavior
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
The Economics of Parenting
You gotta move
Human capital development before age five
Moved to Opportunity
Quantifying the Effect of Neighbourhood on Individuals
Adolescent neighborhood context and young adult economic outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos
Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects
Does neighbourhood influence ethnic inequalities in economic activity? Findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study
Neighborhood peer effects on youth crime
Formation and persistence of oppositional identities
Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index
Adolescent outcomes and opportunities in a Canadian province
Bend it like Beckham
Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs
The effect of peer employment and neighborhood characteristics on individual employment
Does proximity to fast food cause childhood obesity? Evidence from public housing
What do divided cities have in common? An international comparison of income segregation
Mutual misunderstanding and avoidance, misrepresentations and disciplinary politics
Social Assistance Receipt Among Young Adults Who Grow Up in Different Neighborhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
Biases of the ordinary least squares and instrumental variables estimators of the intergenerational earnings elasticity
Urban poverty
Weighing and Measuring the Decline in Residential Segregation
Adrift at the Margins of Urban Society
Beggar thy neighbour, beggar thy neighbourhood
Adolescence socioeconomic segregation and high-skill jobs in adulthood
Does University Level the Playing Field? Impacts of Spatial Inequalities on the Gap in the Earnings of Similar Graduates
Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods
Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities
Neighborhoods and mental health—evidence from a natural experiment in the public social housing sector
Collective Efficacy and Mixed-Tenure Redevelopment
The Economics of Social Interactions
Neighborhood Social Mix and Adults' Income Trajectories
Neoliberalismo, migrazioni e segregazione spaziale. politiche abitative e mix sociale nei casi europeo e italiano
Leaving Work, Leaving Home
Exploration of the Role of Education in Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada
The Great Mobility Puzzle Resolved
Neighbourhood Effects in Canada
Residential mobility
Childhood migration and educational attainment
Big Data and the Transformation of Public Policy Analysis
Neighbourhood Effects Research
Where is the land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I
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Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement
Job Information Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Inequality
The Intergenerational Effects of Worker Displacement
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
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Outcomes for ‘stayers’ in urban regeneration areas
Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Interactions between Workers and the Technology of Production
Neighborhood Peer Effects in Secondary School Enrollment Decisions
Effets contextuels et effets de pairs
The Impact of Housing Stressors on the Mental Health of a Low-Income African-American Population
Spatial sorting of African Immigrants in the French Public Housing Market
Child Protection and Adult Crime
The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level
Place of Work and Place of Residence
Welfare participation and depression among youth in the United States
Analysis of Neighbourhood Effects and Work Behaviour
Are Males' Incomes Influenced by the Income Mix of Their Male Neighbors? Explorations into Nonlinear and Threshold Effects in Stockholm
The Impact of Residential Mobility on Measurements of Neighbourhood Effects
The Influence of Neighborhood Poverty During Childhood on Fertility, Education, and Earnings Outcomes
Neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood satisfaction, and well-being
You become one with the place”
Ethnic identity and immigrants’ wages in Greece
Does neighbourhood deprivation cause poor health? Within-individual analysis of movers in a prospective cohort study
When are ghettos bad? Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
Neighborhood quality and labor market outcomes
Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance
Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence from Sweden
Cultural dynamics, social mobility and urban segregation
Social interaction and urban sprawl
Getting a Job
Equity and Efficiency in Human Capital Investment
A Simple Model of Herd Behavior
A theory of persistent income inequality
Identification of Endogenous Social Effects
Policy Interventions, Low-Level Equilibria, and Social Interactions
Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities
Moving to Opportunity in Boston
Changing the geography of opportunity by expanding residential choice
The Long-Run Consequences of Living in a Poor Neighborhood
Economics and Identity
The Truly Disadvantaged
Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime
Correlations between Neighboring Children in Their Subsequent Educational Attainment
Blacks in near‐ghettos?’ black visible minority population in metropolitan Toronto housing authority public housing units
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
A Theory of Conformity
Social Osmosis and Patterns of Crime
A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades
Social Distance and Social Decisions
Perceptions of peer pressure, peer conformity dispositions, and self-reported behavior among adolescents
The Epidemic Theory of Ghettos and Neighborhood Effects on Dropping Out and Teenage Childbearing
| Unique citing works | 145 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,3 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 137 |