Economic Influences on Social Mix

Evans, Alan W.

doi:10.1080/00420987620080531

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“…In recent years, interest in social interactions, neighbourhood effects and social dynamics has undergone a revival amongst economists in general and not just those involved in housing (see Manski, 2000, for an overview). None of the areas, in themselves, is new; potential interdependencies in preferences have long been recognised (see, for example, Pollak, 1976;Evans, 1976). Granovetter (1985) discusses the importance of informal social interrelationships between firms as a representation of industrial organisation.…”

Section: Social Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Behaviour as a Basis for Modelling the Urban Housing Market: A Review

Meen

2003

Urban Studies

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This paper considers how empirical models of urban housing markets might be constructed as a basis for policy analysis. It is suggested that this is fundamentally more difficult than national or regional models, because of particular characteristics of urban marketsnotably, the importance of social interactions, non-linearity and segregation. However, recent advances in the modelling of social interactions point to a possible way forward. The paper begins by reviewing some aspects of this literature and shows how the models generate non-linearities consistent with recent work on thresholds in local housing markets. Simple cellular automata are also used to demonstrate this point and how segregation may arise. A review follows of work on discrete choice models, which include social interactions within their structure. Bringing all the tools together, it is suggested that there is now the potential to construct urban housing models, although a great deal of theoretical and empirical work remains to be done.

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Section: Social Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Behaviour as a Basis for Modelling the Urban Housing Market: A Review

Meen

2003

Urban Studies

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“…Index of dissimilarity: unemployment based case mixing becomes more likely. Second, Evans (1976) demonstrates how segregation is more likely to occur when household preferences are interdependent. Third, a series of papers by Galster and his colleagues (Galster & Zobel, 1998;Galster et al, 2000;Galster, 2002Galster, , 2003Quercia & Galster, 1997) investigates the evidence for thresholds, which can generate segregated communities.…”

Section: Thresholds Poverty Traps and Segregationmentioning

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Modelling Local Spatial Poverty Traps in England

Meen

2009

Housing Studies

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This paper considers how local areas become stuck in poverty traps and develops models exhibiting thresholds, where deprivation has to fall to a certain level before taking off. Using aggregate data for local authorities, the paper models cross-section movements of house prices to identify the threshold level of poverty. The paper argues that the resource requirements for bringing the most deprived areas to the takeoff point are likely to be high. But for areas that are already close to the threshold, regeneration can be successful. Therefore, identifying the thresholds is important. Testing for thresholds is not straightforward, but the paper provides empirical evidence. The implications for policies concerned with social mixing are not encouraging. However, mixing may be more successful in areas that lie close to the threshold. For example, few high-income households want to live in the most deprived areas if the expected capital gains are low. But capital gains are maximised close to the takeoff points.

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“…The reinforcing tendencies are stronger if household utilities are interdependent. For example, highly income segregated communities arise when individuals seek to live in neighbourhoods where individuals with similar levels of earnings or education reside (Evans 1976). This is a typical feature of the literature in social dynamics (Durlauf and Young 2001; Durlauf 2005).…”

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Population structure and location choice: A study of London and South East England

Andrew¹,

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2006

Papers in Regional Science

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Many governments have introduced policies aimed at improving social mix, particularly in urban areas. In this article we develop a model of moving and location decisions, which demonstrates how cumulative processes of growth, decline and segregation occur that conflict with the aims of policies aimed at improving social mix. A nested multinomial logit model is estimated, using a micro data set for London and South East England to illustrate the likely outcomes. Copyright (c) 2006 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2006 RSAI.

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Economic Influences on Social Mix

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

Social Behaviour as a Basis for Modelling the Urban Housing Market: A Review

Social Behaviour as a Basis for Modelling the Urban Housing Market: A Review

Modelling Local Spatial Poverty Traps in England

Population structure and location choice: A study of London and South East England

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