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http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116663| Title: | Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy |
| Author: | Åslund, Olof Edin, Per-Anders Fredriksson, Peter Grönqvist, Hans |
| Keywords: | Interacció social Grups de parells Estudiants estrangers Social interaction Peer groups Foreign students |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
| Series/Report no: | [WP E-IEB10/19] |
| Abstract: | We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject’s ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of high-educated in the assigned neighborhood raises compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the performance gap between refugee immigrant and nativeborn children. |
| Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions |
| It is part of: | IEB Working Paper 2010/19 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116663 |
| Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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