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

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Grönqvist, Hans

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“…The policy has been carefully documented elsewhere and has been used to examine the impact of neighborhood conditions on refugees' socioeconomic outcomes (see e.g. Edin, Fredriksson and Åslund 2003;Fredriksson 2009, Åslund andRooth 2007;Åslund et al 2011). We refer to these studies for a more comprehensive treatment of the policy.…”

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“…The policy has been used in several previous studies to investigate peer and neighborhood effects among refugees (see e.g. Edin, Fredriksson and Åslund 2003;Åslund and Fredriksson 2009;Åslund et al 2011).…”

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“…The 25 Our instrumental variables strategy is identical to the one used by Kling, Liebman and Katz (2007) and Votruba and Kling (2004) when analyzing the impact of neighborhood conditions in the MTO and the Gautreaux projects and to the previous studies using the same policy to analyze the importance of neighborhood effects for refugees (see e.g. Edin, Fredriksson and Åslund 2003;Åslund et al 2011). 26 When evaluating the size of the IV estimates we use the individual level variation in inequality.…”

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Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program

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Johansson

Niknami

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area of residence. The policy was implemented in a way that provides a source of plausibly random variation in initial location. The results reveal no statistically significant effect of income inequality on the risk of being hospitalized. This finding holds also for most population subgroups and when separating between different types of diagnoses.Our estimates are precise enough to rule out large effects of income inequality on health. JEL Classification:I10, J15

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“…In a similar way, a large literature has shown that differences in neighborhood quality (such as the level of income and ethnic segregation) contribute in explaining differences in educational outcomes (e.g. Chetty, Hendren and Katz 2015;Åslund, Edin, Fredriksson, and Grönqvist 2011;Grönqvist 2006;Grönqvist, Niknami and Robling 2015).…”

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“…We exploit the fact that the -otherwise homogeneous-population 2 Other studies examine the eects of ethnic diversity on productivity at the country (Montalvo and Reynal-Querol, 2005), region (Ozgen et al, 2011a) or city level (Ottaviano and Peri, 2006;Lee and Nathan, 2011). Related are also studies measuring the impact of ethnic composition of schools or neighborhoods on educational outcomes (e.g., Hoxby, 2000;Angrist and Lang, 2004;Card and Rothstein, 2007;Hanushek et al, 2009;Aslund et al, 2011).…”

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn

Praag

2012

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Ethnic diversity and team performance: a field experimentHoogendoorn, S.M.; van Praag, C.M. Link to publication General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized eld experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherlands. We exploit the fact that companies are set up in realistic though similar circumstances and that we, as outside researchers, had the unique opportunity to exogenously vary the ethnic composition of otherwise randomly composed teams. The student population consists of 55% students with a non-Dutch ethnicity from 53 dierent countries of origin. We nd that a moderate level of ethnic diversity has no eect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, prots and prots per share). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on the performance of teams. In line with theoretical predictions, our data suggest that this positive eect could be related to the more diverse pool of relevant knowledge facilitating (mutual) learning within ethnically diverse teams. JEL-codes: J15, L25, C93, L26, M13, D83

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

Cited by 95 publications

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Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program

Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program

Nordic Economic Policy Review

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

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