Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227782 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2020-01
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
We investigate the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on individual subjective and objective wellbeing for England and Wales. Our identification strategy combines rich longitudinal information on individual characteristics, family background and initial job conditions with panel data estimators and sample restrictions, which address residential sorting bias and neighbourhood-specific confounding effects. Our findings suggest that the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on life satisfaction and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that the results overall do not vary by the bespoke spatial scale used to operationalize neighbourhoods.
Subjects: 
neighbourhood effects
life satisfaction
wages
bespoke neighbourhoods
JEL: 
I31
C23
D31
I30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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