TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Petrović, Ana
AU  - Manley, David
AU  - Ham, Maarten van
        TI  - Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects
        PY  - 2018/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11416
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11416
        AB  - Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that different geographies and scales affect individual outcomes. We argue that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the tyranny of neighbourhood and consider alternative ways to measure the wider socio-spatial context of people, placing individuals at the centre of the approach. We review theoretical and empirical approaches to place and space from a multitude of disciplines and the geographical scopes of neighbourhood effects mechanisms. Ultimately, we suggest ways in which micro-geographic data can be used to operationalise socio-spatial context for neighbourhood effects, where data pragmatism should be supplanted by a theory-driven data exploration.
        KW  - bespoke neighbourhoods
KW  - micro-geographic data
KW  - socio-spatial context
KW  - neighbourhood effects
KW  - spatial scale
        ER  -