Close neighbours matter
Subtitle: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
By: by Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin.
Contributors: Maurin, Eric.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2095; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2095
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Academic achievement -- France; Neighborhoods -- France; Junior high school students -- France; Social groups -- France
Description: "Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty is that neighbourhoods measured in available data are often considerably larger than those which matter for outcomes (i.e. close neighbours). Several institutional features of France enable us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent's performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly influenced by the performance of other adolescents in the neighbourhood"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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