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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities

Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 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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Ethnic differences in duration and timing of exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage during childhood

Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …

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Neighborhood spillover effects of early childhood interventions

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2023

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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019

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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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Understanding neighbourhood effects : selection bias and residential mobility

Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van - 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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Neighbourhood choice and neighbourhood reproduction

Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 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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Neighbourhood effects, housing tenure, and individual employment outcomes

Manley, David; Harn, Maarten van - 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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