practices in analysing neighbourhood change, the roles of these underlying processes are unclear. This paper builds on a …

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 …

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 neighbourhood effects is the (econometric) identification of causal effects …

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 neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …

neighbourhood effects literature is the identification of causal neighbourhood effects. A particular problem is that individuals do … potential of individuals. To get more insight in neighbourhood effects we run separate models for social renters and owner … with multiple neighbourhood scales operationalised. Based on the results we argue that any apparent neighbourhoods effects …

neighbourhood and decile gains when they move. There are also powerful roles of being unemployed and being (and becoming) a social …

neighbourhood environments that differ in terms of their ethnic composition from those in which individuals previously lived. We … the moving destinations of Estonian- and Russian-speakers diverge. When Estonians move, their new neighbourhood generally …

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 … commitments are influenced by neighbourhood characteristics. We investigate this process for migrant youth, a group that lags …