The long-run consequences of living in a poor neighborhood
The long-run consequences of living in a poor neighborhood
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DOI：
10.1162/003355303322552865
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发表时间：
2003-11-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Oreopoulos, P
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作者：
Oreopoulos, P
许多社会科学家认为，儿童所接触的社区的质量会影响各种长期的社会结果。我研究了长期劳动力市场的结果，成年人谁被分配，年轻时，在多伦多的公共住房项目有很大不同的效果。行政数据与公共住房地址相匹配，以跟踪儿童从该计划到30岁以上的情况。主要的发现是，虽然生活条件和接触犯罪在不同的项目之间有很大的差异，但社区质量在决定年轻人的最终收入，失业可能性和福利参与方面几乎没有作用。生活在对比鲜明的住房项目中无法解释劳动力市场结果的巨大差异，但家庭差异（通过兄弟姐妹结果相关性来衡量）占数据总方差的30%。
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.