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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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field experiment to measure the average effects of the treatment on eligible and ineligible subjects for the program in the …
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This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in … Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …
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proceed from novel administrative data on homeless families observed in the context of a scarcity-induced natural experiment …
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken …
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(affluent) neighborhood. To this end, we conducted a field experiment where fictitious job applications were sent to employers …The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents … causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is scant, and causal evidence on the mechanisms involved is even more …
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the literature by examining to what extent educational attainment can break the link between parental neighbourhood … disadvantage and the neighbourhood experiences of children as adults up to 12 years after leaving the parental home. We use … neighbourhoods later in life than children who grew up in more affluent neighbourhoods. We find that intergenerational neighbourhood …
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In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
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residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US shows that children from … the parental background, the parental neighbourhood, and a compositional measure of the school environment, on the … neighbourhood trajectories of Dutch adolescents after leaving the parental home. We use longitudinal register data from the …
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
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