Measuring Neighbourhood Effects Non-experimentally: How Much Do Alternative Methods Matter?

Housing Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 473-498

  Galster, George ^a   Hedman, Lina ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Neighbourhood effects; non linear effects; social mixing; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LOW INCOME HOUSING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EID: 84876965499     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759544     Document Type: Article

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