Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Gronqvist, Hans
• 署名单位: Uppsala University; Stockholm University; Stockholm University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.3.2.67
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 67-95
• 关键词: ethnic enclaves; School quality; economic success; desegregation; performance; attainment; childhood; education; earnings; CHILDREN

摘要

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 that 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 0.8 percentile ranks. Particularly for disadvantaged groups, there are also long-run effects on educational attainment. (JEL I21, J15, R23)