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 …

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 …

performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …