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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810097
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254
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Socio-spatial mobility in British society
Clark, William A. V.; Ham, Maarten van; Coulter, Rory - 2011
The research reported in this paper examines the nature and extent of socio-spatial mobility in the United Kingdom. In contrast with previous studies, we do not only investigate who moves out of deprived neighbourhoods, but our models cover the entire spectrum of neighbourhoods and provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310767
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Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401362
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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
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Neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696034
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Lessons learned from the largest tenure mix operation in the world : right to buy in the United Kingdom
Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2013
, removing the potential of negative neighborhood effects. By far the largest tenure mix operation in Europe is the Right to Buy … these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of living in poverty concentration areas, often … neighborhoods with a large share of social housing. In Europe, great importance is attached to creating a more diverse housing stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697676
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Where the streets have a name : income comparisons in the US
Brodeur, Abel; Fleche, Sarah - 2013
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009719627
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Occupational mobility and living in deprived neighbourhoods : housing tenure differences in "neighbourhood effects"
Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2013
The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225756
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Crime and mental wellbeing
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E.; Leigh, Andrew - 2014
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime...
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