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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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Education Policies and Migration Across European Countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2016
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997448
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Bergström, Lina - 2010
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...
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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
Neilson, Chris - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118273
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Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects
Hedman, Lina - 2012
Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely the current neighbourhood, but also the neighbourhood history of an individual that is important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099772
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088325
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Parents and Peers : Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes Over Time
de Vuijst, Elise - 2017
There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course. Intergenerational transmissions were repeatedly shown for socioeconomic characteristics and (dis)advantage, but recently also for residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the...
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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage : A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
Manley, David - 2018
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926709
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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement : Evidence from a Placement Policy
Aslund, Olof - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA …
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The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences : A Follow-Up from Birth to Age 15
Kleinepier, Tom - 2017
Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood … children's long-run neighborhood conditions depends on the stability in children's neighborhood experiences over time. We … investigate the temporal stability in children's neighborhood environment, focusing on two of the most commonly studied …
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