Place. Peers. and the Teenage Years: Long-Run Neighborhood Effects in Australia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Deutscher, Nathan
• 署名单位: Australian National University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20180329
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 220-249
• 关键词: intergenerational mobility; opportunity; childhood; earnings; exposure; income; CHILDREN; impacts

摘要

I use variation in the age at which children move to show that where an Australian child grows up has a causal effect on their adult income, education, marriage, and fertility. In doing so, I replicate the findings of Chetty and Hendren (2018a) in a country with less inequality, more social mobility, and different institutions. Across all outcomes, place typically matters most during the teenage years. Finally, I provide suggestive evidence of peer effects using cross-cohort variation in the peers of permanent postcode residents: those born into a richer cohort for their postcode tend to end up with higher incomes themselves.