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Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from …). We found a small, but significant, positive correlation between living in mixed tenure (40-80% social housing) streets … can be interpreted as 'neighbourhood effects' or selection effects. -- Tenure mix ; deprivation ; neighbourhood effects …
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Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger...
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This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
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other age-related services. The housing preferences of the aging population are changing rapidly where more and more people … policies. Hence, an important question is to what extent these policies affect the housing situation, social support networks … financially. Those who have moved home often report regeneration benefits, mostly related to accessing better quality housing in …
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. The homeowners cleverly mobilise stable neighbourhood features and the challenges brought by neighbourhood changes to … the development of place attachment. However, various forms of neighbourhood decline have negative effects on their place … of rootedness in the neighbourhood and the desire to relocate to achieve better living conditions. By exploring this …
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the 2004–2014 period for the full Finnish population, allowing a dynamic analysis of changes in income and neighbourhood …
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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 …
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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 …
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population matches their own characteristics. -- neighbourhood ; housing choice ; sorting ; residential mobility ; conditional … 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 …
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