Understanding the effects of school catchment areas and households with children in ethnic residential segregation
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01/02/2021Funder
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ERC-2013-CoG
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Abstract
Households with children have been suggested to play a key role in ethnic residential segregation. One possible mechanism is that school district boundaries affect their segregation patterns, but direct evidence on this is scarce. This study investigates the role of school catchment areas for ethnic residential segregation among different types of households in the city of Helsinki, Finland, using individual-level register-based data covering the complete population of the city between 2005 and 2014. The analyses consist of three steps: a description of ethnic segregation among different types of households with segregation indices, an analysis of mobility flows between school catchment areas, and a boundary discontinuity analysis of the causal effects of the boundaries of catchment areas on the mobility of different types of Finnish-origin households. The analyses show that ethnic segregation is stronger among households with children than among childless households and the residential mobility of higher-income Finnish-origin households with children is particularly affected by the school catchment area boundaries.
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Kauppinen , T M , van Ham , M & Bernelius , V 2021 , ' Understanding the effects of school catchment areas and households with children in ethnic residential segregation ' , Housing Studies , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2020.1857707
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Housing Studies
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Peer reviewed
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0267-3037Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland (decision numbers 303617 and 303620), from the European Research Council 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), and from the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme (decision number 320162).Collections
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