residential mobility, including job opportunities, neighborhood and housing amenities, social networks and housing and moving …

background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship … siblings share (i.e., family background and neighborhood effects). The average is 28 percent. Hence, entrepreneurship is far … neighborhood effects matter, but are rather small, particularly when compared with the overall importance of family factors …

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

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 …

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 …