theneighborhoodunemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as theaveragehousing price are not important. From this we conclude that …

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify … among people of one's own ethnic group, but in a sufficiently diverse neighborhood. We discuss ways to extend and apply our …

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 …