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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 studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...
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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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Neighborhoods can considerably affect children's future outcomes, but the forces through which they operate are not well understood yet. I study how local schools affect the educational achievement of low-income students when their neighborhood changes as a result of an inflow of more affluent...
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Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about which neighborhood characteristics are most important, and at what scale neighborhood effects operate. By using the random assignment of public housing along with...
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In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the … association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually … commitments are influenced by neighbourhood characteristics. We investigate this process for migrant youth, a group that lags …
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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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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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In the Netherlands, obtaining a higher education increases the chance to move to a better neighbourhood for native … Dutch adults who grew up in a deprived parental neighbourhood. For non-Western minorities, education does not have this … the relationship between educational attainment and neighbourhood outcomes over time. We use longitudinal register data …
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