Economic Archives - AQMeN Research Centre

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

July 20, 2017 fbarlow Projects, Urban Segregation and Inequality

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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Crime, Economic, Economy, Environment, House prices, housing, Schools

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

July 10, 2017 fbarlow Education and social stratification, Projects

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.