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dc.contributor.authorÅslund, Olofen
dc.contributor.authorEdin, Per-Andersen
dc.contributor.authorFredriksson, Peteren
dc.contributor.authorGrönqvist, Hansen
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-22-
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-27T09:29:58Z-
dc.date.available2011-05-27T09:29:58Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/45764-
dc.description.abstractImmigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject's ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of highly educated adults in the assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU) |cUppsalaen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x2009:20en
dc.subject.jelI20en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.jelZ13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPeer effectsen
dc.subject.keywordethnic enclavesen
dc.subject.keywordimmigrationen
dc.subject.keywordschool performanceen
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwSegregationen
dc.subject.stwBildungsniveauen
dc.subject.stwAllgemeinbildende Schuleen
dc.subject.stwBildungsverhaltenen
dc.subject.stwSchwedenen
dc.titlePeers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn609476637en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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