Neighborhood Effects and Neighborhood Dynamics

Neighborhood Effects

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Neighborhood Effects and Housing

Home Foreclosures and Neighborhood Crime Dynamics

We advance scholarship related to home foreclosures and neighborhood crime by employing Granger causality tests and multilevel growth modeling with annual data from Chicago neighborhoods over the 1998-2009 period. We find that completed foreclosures temporally lead property crime and not vice versa. More completed foreclosures during a year both increase the level of property crime and slow its...

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...