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For educational attainment, it's more helpful to grow up in an affluent neighborhood than it is harmful to grow up in a poor one, per 23-year large Netherlands cohort study

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Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence?

image: The findings suggest that it's more helpful to grow up in an affluent neighborhood than it is harmful to grow up in a poor one. view more 

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For educational attainment, it's more helpful to grow up in an affluent neighborhood than it is harmful to grow up in a poor one, per 23-year large Netherlands cohort study

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281928

Article Title: Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment. What matters more: Exposure to poverty or exposure to affluence?

Author Countries: The Netherlands, UK

Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council (https://erc.europa.eu/) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects; awarded to M. v. H.), as well as from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (https://wayback.archive-it.org/12090/20220124075100/https:/ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/) under Grant Agreement n. 727097 (RELOCAL; awarded to M. v. H.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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