stay in their neighbourhood, and this effect is more pronounced in more deprived neighbourhoods. Estimation is based on … importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents’ low employment and to low parental …

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 neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …

measures of geography within Europe, we show that i) geography explains both genetic distance and transportation costs between … European countries, and ii) genetic distance does not explain economic outcomes once we control for geography. We conclude that …

distance (while controlling for country size). Since geography may affect income through other channels, we also control for …

trade and immigration flows are based on geography and the demographic trends of each country’s trade and migration partners …