Citation

Gibbons S, Silva O, Weinhardt F. Econ. J. 2013; 123(571): 831-874.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Royal Economic Society, Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1111/ecoj.12025

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We use administrative data to estimate the effect of neighbourhood composition on teenagers' educational and behavioural outcomes in England. We exploit a unique research design based on changes over time in neighbourhood composition experienced by residentially immobile students, where these changes arise purely through residential migration among other students in our data set. The complete coverage of our data allows investigating heterogeneity and non-linearities in the effect of neighbourhood composition at an unprecedented level. Our results show that changes in neighbourhood composition have no effects on test scores but some effects on behavioural outcomes, which are heterogeneous for boys and girls.

Language: en