Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55080 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5980
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The longitudinal nature and detail of the data allows us to control for student unobserved characteristics, neighbourhood fixed effects and time trends, school-by-cohort fixed effects, as well as students' observable attributes and prior attainments. The institutional setting also allows us to distinguish between neighbours who attend the same or different schools, and thus examine interactions between school and neighbourhood peers. Overall, our results provide evidence that peers in the neighbourhood have no effect on test scores, but have a small effect on behavioural outcomes, such as attitudes towards schooling and anti-social behaviour.
Subjects: 
peer and neighbourhood effects
cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes
secondary schools
JEL: 
C21
I20
H75
R23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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