Jenkins – neighbourhood

I would say those are the least strong of what we are finding. So yes, we have, we have got some evidence, the reason why that’s a tricky thing to look at is because you have to control for the person’s own socio-economic influences that get them into neighbourhoods, and those are extremely strong.  

We have to do is take account of those effects at a personal level, and then look at the effects over and above the person at the neighbourhood level, and the personal level effects of poverty are so strong that they minimize the effects of the neighbourhood.  

So we don’t see those as strongly as the person level socioeconomic effects that we see. So yes, we do have a little bit of evidence for some neighbourhood influences, on for instance, differential parenting, but they’re not as strong as those personal level influences are.