Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

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We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject's ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of high-educated in the assigned neighborhood raises compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. Particularly for disadvantaged groups, there are also long-run effects on educational attainment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2010:27

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Peer effects ; Ethnic enclaves ; Immigration ; School performance ; Migranten ; Bildungsniveau ; Nachbarschaft ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Åslund, Olof ; Edin, Per-Anders ; Fredriksson, Peter ; Grönqvist, Hans
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Uppsala University, Department of Economics
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82543
• URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-139605
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET