Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School
Dominique Goux
(1)
,
Eric Maurin
(2, 3, 4, 5)
Eric Maurin
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1268853
Résumé
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. There is an identification problem 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 outcomes at the end of junior high-school are strongly influenced by the performance of other adolescents in the neighbourhood.
Domaines
Economies et financesFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
Titre |
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Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School
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Résumé |
en
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. There is an identification problem 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 outcomes at the end of junior high-school are strongly influenced by the performance of other adolescents in the neighbourhood.
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Auteur(s) |
Dominique Goux
1
, Eric Maurin
2, 3, 4, 5
1
CREST -
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
( 2579 )
- 5, Avenue Henry Le Chatelier
91120 Palaiseau
- France
2
PJSE -
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 1312 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
3
CEPR -
Center for Economic Policy Research
( 143559 )
- Royaume-Uni
4
IZA -
Institute for the Study of Labor
( 142142 )
- Allemagne
5
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Audience |
Non spécifiée
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Date de publication |
2007-10
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Volume |
117
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Numéro |
523
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Page/Identifiant |
1193-1215
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Domaine(s) |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02079.x |
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