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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities
Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016
Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...
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Education policies and migration across European countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
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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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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932493
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Does money strengthen our social ties? : longitudinal evidence of lottery winners
Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021
We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite...
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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...
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Ethnic differences in duration and timing of exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage during childhood
Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716179
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Being poorer than the rest of the neighbourhood : relative deprivation and problem behaviour of youth
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Ham, Maarten van; Yu, Rongqin; … - 2016
According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths' problem behaviour. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighbourhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioural problems in more...
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Neighborhood effects, peer classification, and the decision of women to work
Mota, Nuno; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rosenthal, Stuart S. - 2016
We examine the influence of neighborhood peer effects on the decision of women to work using panel data that follows … these estimates. Our approach could also be applied to other instances in which neighborhood peer effects are important. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486470
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Compliance behavior in networks : evidence from a field experiment
Drago, Francesco; Mengel, Friederike; Traxler, Christian - 2015
This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376178