TY  - JOUR
AU  - Harding,David J.
AU  - Gennetian,Lisa
AU  - Winship,Christopher
AU  - Sanbonmatsu,Lisa
AU  - Kling,Jeffrey R.
TI  - Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16055
PY  - 2010
Y2  - June 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16055
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16055.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David J. Harding
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
Room 4128 LSA Building
500 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
E-Mail: dharding@umich.edu

Lisa Gennetian
Lisa A. Gennetian
New York University
Institute of Human Development and
Social Change
246 Greene Street, Floor 6E
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 917-319-9485
E-Mail: gennetl@nber.org

Christopher Winship
620 William James Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-Mail: cwinship@wjh.harvard.edu

Lisa Sanbonmatsu
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/613-1201
E-Mail: lsanbonm@nber.org

Jeffrey R. Kling
Congressional Budget Office
3403 Ordway St NW
Washington, DC 20016
E-Mail: jeffrey.r.kling@gmail.com
AB  - We motivate future neighborhood research through a simple model that considers youth educational outcomes as a function of neighborhood context, neighborhood exposure, individual vulnerability to neighborhood effects, and non-neighborhood educational inputs -- with a focus on effect heterogeneity. Research using this approach would require three steps.  First, researchers would need to shift focus away from broad theories of neighborhood effects and examine the specific mechanisms through which the characteristics of a neighborhood might affect an individual. Second, neighborhood research would need new and far more nuanced data. Third, more research designs would be needed that can unpack the causal effects, if any, of specific neighborhood characteristics as they operate through well-specified mechanisms.
ER  -