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SUBMITTER: Hicks AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5908216 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demography 20180201 1
Prior research has suggested that children living in a disadvantaged neighborhood have lower achievement test scores, but these studies typically have not estimated causal effects that account for neighborhood choice. Recent studies used propensity score methods to account for the endogeneity of neighborhood exposures, comparing disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged neighborhoods. We develop an alternative propensity function approach in which cumulative neighborhood effects are modeled as a contin ...[more]