Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185144 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11684
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger commuting zones, and the childhood neighborhood status is the average status of the neighborhoods inhabited from birth to age 15. Identification of causal effects relies on within-family comparisons. Our results reveal a hump-shaped relationship between the socioeconomic status of the childhood neighborhood and school results at age 15-16, such that the optimal neighborhood is of medium rank. The top-ranked neighbor-hoods are as bad as the bottom-ranked. Similar results are obtained for educational and labor market outcomes measured at higher ages.
Subjects: 
segregation
neighborhood effects
social mobility
educational outcomes
JEL: 
C21
I24
R23
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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