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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...

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Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes

Manley, David - 2010

This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if they are employed. The main challenge in the neighbourhood effects literature is the...

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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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Understanding Neighbourhood Effects : Selection Bias and Residential Mobility

Bergström, Lina - 2010

The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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