Social Frontiers

Question 1

What are the main research questions you would like to explore in the next 5 years?

Answer 1

• Measurement of SFs
  — interpolation below areal unit, snapped to GIS features
  — international applications — prevalence of SFs across countries and changes over time
• Impacts of SFs:
  — novel spatial ISCM estimates of causal impacts on wellbeing & depression — Lee & Ramos
  — relational theory of relative deprivation
  — impacts SF in income & wealth on perceptions of inequality
  — impacts of SFs on housing discrimation
  — equilibrium sorting model of gentrification and SF formation

Question 2

SF and voluntary sector

Answer 2

— Mitigating role of Human agency

• How 3rd sector & local democracy mitigate the impacts of segregation and social frontiers
• connection with our Rotherham work and Pat Sharkey’s research:

Sharkey finds powerful and positive causal effects of local non-profits and community-based institutions on urban neighborhoods, particularly in terms of crime reduction, social mobility, and overall community well-being.