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We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite...
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This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …
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The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
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This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor...
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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 …
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Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors. Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...
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