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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810097
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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389402
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254
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Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2013
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 internalise educational norms held by residents, is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774269
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Neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696034
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502671
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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011
federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. -- social interactions ; unemployment ; neighborhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516936
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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519900
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The moderating effect of higher education on intergenerational spatial inequality
Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2015
It is well-known that socioeconomic outcomes and (dis)advantage over the life course can be transmitted from parent to child. It is increasingly suggested that these intergenerational effects also have a spatial dimension, although empirical research into this topic remains scarce. Previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407794
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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846006