Modeling Neighborhood Effects

Neighborhood Effects

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Neighborhood Effects and Housing

Neighborhood effects on drug reporting.

AIMS To examine whether neighborhood racial characteristics are associated with the under reporting of life time cocaine/crack use. DESIGN A household survey of high-risk communities with above-average admissions to state-supported drug and alcohol treatment programs. SETTING Chicago, Illinois, USA. PARTICIPANTS A total of 303 adults. MEASURES Self-reported use of cocaine/crack during a...

The neighborhood effects of foreclosure

Neighborhood quality is an important attribute of housing yet its value is rarely known to researchers. We argue that changes in nearby foreclosures reveal changes in neighborhood quality. Thus estimates of the hedonic price of nearby foreclosures provide a glimpse of values that people hold for local neighborhood quality. The empirical models include controls for both spatial dependence in hou...

Orthographic neighborhood effects in lexical decision: the effects of nonword orthographic neighborhood size.

The effects of large neighborhoods (neighborhood size) and of higher frequency neighbors (neighborhood frequency) were examined as a function of nonword neighborhood size in lexical decision tasks. According to the multiple read-out model (J. Grainger & A. M. Jacobs, 1996), neighborhood size and neighborhood frequency effects should vary systematically as a function of nonword neighborhood size...