Similar Search Results

Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 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. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254

Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2013

In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774269

Peers, neighborhoods, and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 67-95

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233964

Neighbourhood and school poverty simultaneously predicting educational achievement, taking into account timing and duration of exposure

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2019

Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic composition of both contexts likely overlaps to some...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022696