This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … and violent crimes will arise, and moreover, "neighborhood" effects can develop, but will differ substantially in nature … with the empirical evidence. -- Poverty ; crime ; neighborhood effects ; segregation ; instrumental variables ; public …

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 …

What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have … the number of new immigrants in a neighborhood using lagged densities of the foreign-born in surrounding neighborhoods …

performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …

background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship … siblings share (i.e., family background and neighborhood effects). The average is 28 percent. Hence, entrepreneurship is far … neighborhood effects matter, but are rather small, particularly when compared with the overall importance of family factors …