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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 …

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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

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The moderating effect of higher education on intergenerational spatial inequality

Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2015

It is well-known that socioeconomic outcomes and (dis)advantage over the life course can be transmitted from parent to child. It is increasingly suggested that these intergenerational effects also have a spatial dimension, although empirical research into this topic remains scarce. Previous...

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Parents and peers : parental neighbourhood- and school-level variation in individual neighbourhood outcomes over time

Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van - 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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Educational attainment and neighbourhood outcomes : differences between highly-educated natives and non-western ethnic minorities in the Netherlands

Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

In the Netherlands, obtaining a higher education increases the chance to move to a better neighbourhood for native Dutch adults who grew up in a deprived parental neighbourhood. For non-Western minorities, education does not have this positive effect on socio-spatial mobility. In this study we...

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