Arbeitspapier
Neighborhood Effects in Education
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 proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income as well as in unobserved characteristics, appears to play a major role in facilitating peer influence. Our empirical strategy is able to control for the endogeneity of both social network and location choices.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8956
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Subject
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neighborhood effects
social networks
link formation
education
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Del Bello, Carlo L.
Patacchini, Eleonora
Zenou, Yves
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Del Bello, Carlo L.
- Patacchini, Eleonora
- Zenou, Yves
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015
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