Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Uppsala University, Department of Economics
No 2010:27: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Olof Åslund (), Per-Anders Edin (), Hans Grönqvist () and Peter Fredriksson ()
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Olof Åslund: IFAU, Postal: P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Per-Anders Edin: Department of Economics, Postal: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Hans Grönqvist: Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI, Postal: Stockholm University, SOFI, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Peter Fredriksson: Stockholm University, Postal: Department of Economics, , SE-106 91 Stockholm,, SwedenSweden
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, November 30, 2010
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