Sorting models and economic evaluation of social and environmental (Dis)Amenities

One of the main approaches in the literature for estimating the economic value of the reduction in crime or the improvement in school performance is to use differences in house price changes to compute the willingness to pay for these improvements. However, such improvements are likely to change the social mix of the affected neighbourhoods. Failure to take into account

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The effects of family economic, social and cultural capital and neighbourhood on educational outcomes

This research, undertaken by Doctoral student Carla Cebula, looks at the impact of a young person’s access to economic, social and cultural capital at home, and the neighbourhood that they grow up in, on their educational attainment. Carla is working with the Millennium Cohort Study, a birth cohort study of young people born in 2000, focusing on the English sub-sample.

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