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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty
Bjerk, David - 2009
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902147
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551917
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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517740
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the lab
Falk, Armin (contributor); Fischbacher, Urs (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002482525
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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities
Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019
Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997718
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Linking individuals and societies
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872719
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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014
importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … residential turnover on student test score gains. We show that high neighbourhood turnover reduces value added for students who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393805
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Three generations of intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood context
Hedman, Lina; Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit - 2017
The literature on intergenerational contextual mobility has shown that neighbourhood status is partly "inherited" from … neighbourhoods also as adults. It has been suggested that such transmission of neighbourhood status also is relevant from multiple … similarities in neighbourhood status of three generations of Swedish women. Findings suggest that the neighbourhood environments of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776019
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Contract violations, neighborhood effects, and wage arrears in Russia
Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120369
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901993