There's no smoke without fire: Uncovering the mechanism(s) behind neighbourhood effects - David Manley (Uni of Bristol)
12:00pm - 1:00pm /
Tuesday 1st November 2016
/ Venue: Rendall Building Lecture Theatre 8 Rendall Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- 01517954642
- Jamie Hughes
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There is a vast literature on neighbourhood effects - over 20,000 papers investigating the idea that where you live has an impact on your life course outcomes above and beyond that which would be expected given your individual characteristics. However, much of this literature uses the neighbourhood as a proxy for a wealth of influences and interactions. This is problematic and much of the literature fails to demonstrate that there is any causal effect, relying instead on the correlation between, for instance, living in a deprived neighbourhood and poor health. In this paper, I explore two aspects of the literature: Firstly, I provide an overview of the key issues facing researchers in the field attempting to determine the significance or otherwise of the neighbourhood. Secondly, I explore an explicit mechanism to explain a neighbourhood effect using the exemplar of childhood smoking to unpack the causal pathway from living in a deprived outcome and a negative health behaviour.