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

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Olof Åslund; Per-Anders Edin; Peter Fredriksson; Hans Grönqvist

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Project Citation:

Åslund, Olof, Edin, Per-Anders, Fredriksson, Peter, and Grönqvist, Hans. Replication data for: Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113787V1

Project Description

Summary: 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)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I21 Analysis of Education
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

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