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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"neighbourhood effects"”.
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Neighbourhood effects in educational outcomes with non-random assignment : a memberships approach
… in South Africa to analyse the role that neighbourhood and race effects play in determining academic performance. In particular, I am interested in ascertaining whether allocation to a particular residence, or group of residences, affects the academic outcomes of first year students. This …
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Where you live makes a difference - quantifying neighbourhood effects on the health of young people
… the socioeconomic and physical conditions of the neighbourhood. Individual/family-level variables included in the models were: youth age, gender and ethnicity, as well as measures relating to parental health, socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics. Study I revealed that the effects …
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The role of institutions in Shaping foreign capital: Evidence from South Africa and Zimbabwe
… the impact of property rights, domestic risk and neighbourhood effects on the absolute levels of FDI and portfolio investment stocks as well as the relative share of FDI in total foreign capital stocks. Domestic risk is measured by the South African-American sovereign spread. This risk measure …
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Exploring Police-Community Relations Through Homicide.
… ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and location [neighbourhood effects]. Participants also possessed a dichotomised view of policing. This thesis proposes a Police-Community Relations (PCR) model derived from stakeholder data, offering practical strategies to enhance procedural justice, …
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Three essays examining social vulnerability and place-based determinants of health
… examines how accumulated exposures to obesogenic neighbourhood environments affect children and mothers’ BMI, and how socioeconomic status might modify such neighbourhood effects. Drawing from a mother-child birth cohort study based in Singapore, this study found that socioeconomic vulnerability …
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The influence of location on the structure and functioning of private land conservation networks in the Western Cape province of South Africa
… the adopted corporate model of PLCAs. Clear neighbourhood effects emerged in socioeconomic interaction networks, which further highlighted great potential to enhance collaboration across scales. PLCAs provided a substantial contribution to conservation targets in terms of importance (covering …
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Living Together: A Capability Approach to Spatially Segregated Areas of Bogota
… which changes in terms of scale: from macro (neighbourhoods) to micro scales (blocks, streets). Urban segregation has been associated as a barrier for disadvantaged communities, especially when it becomes an intensifier of inequalities. Unequal access to services, availability of local …
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Decentralization and health performance in Italy: theoretical and empirical issues
… which allows to disentangle short and long run effects. The analysis also deals with the issue of heterogeneous distributional geographical responses by modelling the asymmetric impact of decentralization on infant mortality rates according to the level of regional wealth. The second chapter …