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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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Neighbourhood and school poverty simultaneously predicting educational achievement, taking into account timing and duration of exposure

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2019

Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic composition of both contexts likely overlaps to some...

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Parents and peers : parental neighbourhood- and school-level variation in individual neighbourhood outcomes over time

Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course. Intergenerational transmissions were repeatedly shown for socioeconomic characteristics and (dis)advantage, but recently also for residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the...

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Structural and exchange components in processes of neighbourhood change : a social mobility approach

Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is a complex phenomenon which is driven by multiple macro- and micro-level processes. Most theoretical and empirical work has focused on the role of urban-level processes, such as filtering, life-cycle, and social dynamics. For individual neighbourhoods, these...

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Neighborhood effects in education

Del Bello, Carlo L.; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2015

evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …

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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? : evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017

neighbourhoods are modest. In Estonia, which used to be one or the most equal and least segregated countries in Europe and now is one …

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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish neighbors using population register data for Denmark. We exploit differences in the timing of family...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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The golden middle class neighborhood : trends in residential segregation and consequences for offspring outcomes

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2018

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 commuting zones, and the childhood neighborhood status is the …-family comparisons. Our results reveal a hump-shaped relationship between the socioeconomic status of the childhood neighborhood and …

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Does the girl next door affect your academic outcomes and career choices?

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2018

exploit within-school and -neighborhood idiosyncratic variation in gender composition share across consecutive cohorts in the … higher share of females in a school or neighborhood improves both genders' subsequent scholastic performance, increases their … target more lucrative occupations when they have more female peers in school or neighborhood. Based on our back …

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