Data and Code for: Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jean-William Laliberté, University of Calgary

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Project Citation:

Laliberté, Jean-William. Data and Code for: Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-04-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E118906V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper estimates the long-term impact of growing up in better neighborhoods and attending better schools on educational attainment. First, I use a spatial regression-discontinuity design to estimate school effects. Second, I study students who move across neighborhoods in Montreal during childhood to estimate the causal effect of growing up in a better area (total exposure effects). I find large effects for both dimensions. Combining both research designs in a decomposition framework, and under key assumptions, I estimate that 50%-70% of the benefits of moving to a better area on educational attainment are due to access to better schools.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: neighborhood effects; school effects; post-secondary education

JEL Classification:
      I24 Education and Inequality
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

Geographic Coverage: Montreal

Time Period(s): 1/1/1995 – 1/1/2015

Data Type(s): program source code

Methodology

Data Source:

Administrative student-level records.

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V1 [2021-04-07]

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