Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
SULCIS Working Papers,
Stockholm University, Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS
No 2011:2: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Olof Åslund (), Per-Anders Edin (), Peter Fredriksson () and Hans Grönqvist ()
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Olof Åslund: Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
Per-Anders Edin: Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Peter Fredriksson: Department of Economics, Stockholm University
Hans Grönqvist: Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS, Postal: Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: 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 which 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 0.9 percentile ranks. Particularly for disadvantaged groups, there are also long-run effects on educational attainment.
Keywords: Peer effects; Ethnic enclaves; Immigration; School performance
46 pages, April 4, 2011
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