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Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - 2023

Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...

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Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood

Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023

1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of …

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Unpacking Neighborhood Effects : Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil

Belchior, Carlos; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2023

This paper investigates the impacts of neighborhoods on the economic outcomes of adults. We exploit one of the world's largest housing lottery programs and administrative data linking lottery registration, formal employment, and access to social programs in Brazil. Receiving a house has positive...

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Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods

Borjas, George J. - 2020

New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This paper merges information on the number of tests and the number of infections at the New York City zip code level with demographic and socioeconomic information from the decennial census and the American Community...

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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown Up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - 2020

neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20 … separately for the majority population and "visible immigrants" and included several characteristics of the neighbourhood and of … association with social assistance receipt in the neighbourhood where a person lived at age 16 remains strong when parental …

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The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence

Kleinepier, Tom - 2018

Research on neighborhood effects has increasingly focused on how long children have lived in a deprived neighborhood during childhood (duration), but has typically ignored when in childhood the exposure occurred (timing) and whether circumstances were improving or deteriorating (sequencing)....

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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage : A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings

Manley, David - 2018

. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the … neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the neighbourhoods of their childhood and parental characteristics. To better … neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling …

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Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents has been a subject of great interest for both policy makers and researchers. Despite this interest, empirical evidence of causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is...

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Sorting Out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data

Hedman, Lina - 2018

Previous research has reported evidence of intergenerational transmission of both neighbourhood status and social and … terms of their income. However, interactions between the individual, the childhood family and neighbourhood context and the … neighbourhood experiences after leaving the parental home are often overlooked which might bias estimates of neighbourhood effects …

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The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Kjellander, Josef - 2018

We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, we look at the price development in the year after the announcement. We...

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