Do Neighborhoods Affect Hours Worked? Evidence from Longitudinal Data
利用NLSY79纵向数据，研究发现社区社会特征和就业可达性对劳动市场活动有显著影响，社会特征在贫困社区和低教育群体中作用更大，且未控制个体异质性会高估社会效应但低估就业可达性效应。
Using a confidential version of the NLSY79, we estimate large effects of neighborhood social characteristics and job proximity on labor market activity. A variety of neighborhood social characteristics are associated with less market work. Social characteristics have nonlinear effects, with the greatest impact in the worst neighborhoods. Social characteristics are also more important for less-educated workers. Exploiting the panel aspects of our data, we find that estimates that do not account for neighborhood selection on the basis of time-invariant and time-varying unobserved individual characteristics substantially overstate the social effects of neighborhoods but understate the effects of job access.