Neighborhood Effects in Education

Carlo Leone Del Bello, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

No 8956, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using unique geo-coded information on the residential address of a representative sample of American adolescents and their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income as well as in unobserved characteristics, appears to play a major role in facilitating peer influence. Our empirical strategy is able to control for the endogeneity of both social network and location choices.

Keywords: neighborhood effects; social networks; link formation; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2015-03
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