Open AccessEverybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students’ Outcomes in England
Author(s) -
Gibbons Stephen,
Silva Olmo,
Weinhardt Felix
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1468-0297
pISSN - 0013-0133
DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12025
Subject(s) - neighbourhood (mathematics) , exploit , composition (language) , geography , demographic economics , psychology , economics , computer science , mathematics , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , computer security
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.