Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33519 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2095
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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. 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.
Subjects: 
neighborhood effects on education
JEL: 
I21
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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