Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

Economic Journal, 2007, vol. 117, issue 523, 1193-1215

Abstract: 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. Copyright 2007 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2007.

Date: 2007
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Working Paper: Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School (2006)
Working Paper: Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school (2006)
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