Young people's life chances can be predicted by characteristics of their neighbourhood.
Children growing up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods exhibit worse physical and mental …

Scholarly interest in the degree to which neighbourhood conditions affect the life chances of
children, youth and adults has skyrocketed over the last 15 years, as evidenced by the …

Human DNA polymorphisms vary across geographic regions, with the most commonly
observed variation reflecting distant ancestry differences. Here we investigate the …

This study investigates if neighbourhoods can alter the strong relationship between parental
background and children's adult outcomes. In particular, we examine if neighbourhood …

Neighbourhood effects studies typically investigate the negative effects on individual
outcomes of living in areas with concentrated poverty. The literature rarely pays attention to …

Growing up in a poor neighbourhood has negative effects on children and adolescents. In
the literature it has been concluded that the risk of low birth weight, childhood injury and …

This dissertation consists of three self-contained but interrelated empirical studies focusing
on theoretical, empirical and political questions in the multidisciplinary field of …

In order to assist decision‐making about the balance between area‐based policies and
wider forms of intervention, this paper considers the potential strength of neighbourhood …

Researchers show an increasing interest in the question of how a neighbourhood influences
its residents. The crucial question is whether place‐related factors have an independent …

Analyses of neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics and health indicators consistently
show that health is worse in poorer neighbourhoods. However, some studies that examined …