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Using unique geo-coded information on the residential address of a representative sample of American adolescents and their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social...
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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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The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
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Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the GSOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment prospects. The panel setup and richness of...
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Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of … neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely the current neighbourhood, but also the … neighbourhood history of an individual that is important in determining an individual's outcomes. The effect of long-term exposure …
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