Suss, Joel (2023) Measuring local, salient economic inequality in the UK. Environment and Planning A, 55 (7). 1714 - 1737. ISSN 0308-518X
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Abstract
Neighbourhood-level economic inequality is thought to have important implications for social, political, and economic attitudes and behaviours. However, due to a lack of available data, to date it has been impossible to investigate how inequality varies across neighbourhoods in the UK. In this paper, I develop a novel measure of within-neighbourhood inequality in the UK by exploiting data on housing values for over 26.6 million addresses – nearly the universe of residential properties in the UK. Across two surveys, I demonstrate that housing value inequality is perceptually-salient – what people see around them in terms of housing discrepancies is associated with their beliefs about inequality. This new measure of local, salient inequality represents a powerful tool with which to investigate both the anatomy of local inequality in the UK, as well as its attitudinal and behavioural consequences.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/EPN |
Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s) |
Divisions: | Methodology |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences |
JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2023 12:24 |
Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 17:03 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/117884 |
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