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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

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dc.creator Raaum, Oddbjørn
dc.creator Salvanes, Kjell G.
dc.creator Sørensen, Erik Ø.
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:09:15Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:09:15Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20188
dc.identifier ppn:377083496
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20188
dc.description Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children growing up in the same local community. The impact of neighbourhoods is reduced by half from 1960 to 1970 and we link this result to several policy changes in the 1960s aimed at increasing equality of opportunity in Norway. Neighbour correlations in Norway are found to be significantly lower than in the United States.
dc.language eng
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 952
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I21
dc.subject R23
dc.subject J13
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject education
dc.subject earnings
dc.subject neighbours
dc.subject families
dc.subject peer-effects
dc.subject Wohnstandort
dc.subject Bildungsniveau
dc.subject Familiensoziologie
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Norwegen
dc.title The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1986-1995


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