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CREATED:20150105T153631
SUMMARY:Christos Genakos - University of Athens
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Experimental Evidence of Neighbourh
 ood Effects on Education: The Case of the 2004 Athens Olympic Village</stro
 ng></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Abstract:</strong></p><p sty
 le="text-align: justify;">Several important social science literatures emph
 asize the role of neighbourhood characteristics on various socioeconomic ou
 tcomes, including education. For example, living in a better neighbourhood 
 has the potential to enhance human capital development and reduce child pro
 blem behaviours. However, the estimation of the causal effects of neighbour
 hoods is fraught with difficulties, because individuals tend to sort across
  neighbourhoods for reasons that are likely to be correlated with the under
 lying determinants of their outcomes. In this paper we avoid the problem of
  endogenous selection by using data from the randomized selection of low in
 come families to live in the Olympic Village built for the purposes of the 
 2004 Athens Olympic Games. We examine the educational outcomes of children 
 between the ages of 12 to 18 of the selected families and compare them with
  the children of the families that entered the competition but were not sel
 ected to move to the Olympic Village.</p>
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DTSTART:20140403T173000Z
DTEND:20140403T190000Z
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