Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin (), Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, vol. 3, issue 2, pages 67-95

Abstract: We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy that provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject's ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of high-educated in the assigned neighborhood raises compulsory school GPA by 0.8 percentile ranks. Particularly for disadvantaged groups, there are also long-run effects on educational attainment. (JEL I21, J15, R23)

JEL-codes: I21 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.3.2.67
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Working Paper: Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy (2010)
Working Paper: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy (2010)
Working Paper: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy (2010)
Working Paper: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy (2010)
Working Paper: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy (2009)
Working Paper: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement – evidence from a placement policy (2009)
Working Paper: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy (2009)
Working Paper: Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy (2009)
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