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This research fills a void in the regional development literature by assessing how labor force migration affects … attracting relatively wealthier net migrants. Because different relative migration elasticities imply different responses for … household incomes and employment/population rates and reducing unemployment rates and poverty rates. We find that migration post …
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We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 Census to 1) the universe of IRS tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 Census. We use two identification strategies to estimate the potential...
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their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no … evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …
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's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …
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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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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 … from the Netherlands to study a complete cohort of parental home leavers who attained a higher education by the end of the …
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In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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