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CREATED:20150105T153631
SUMMARY:Christos Genakos - University of Athens
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Experimental Evidence of Neighbourhood Effects on Education: The Case of th
 e 2004 Athens Olympic Village\nAbstract:\nSeveral important social science 
 literatures emphasize the role of neighbourhood characteristics on various 
 socioeconomic outcomes, including education. For example, living in a bette
 r neighbourhood has the potential to enhance human capital development and 
 reduce child problem behaviours. However, the estimation of the causal effe
 cts of neighbourhoods is fraught with difficulties, because individuals ten
 d to sort across neighbourhoods for reasons that are likely to be correlate
 d with the underlying determinants of their outcomes. In this paper we avoi
 d the problem of endogenous selection by using data from the randomized sel
 ection of low income families to live in the Olympic Village built for the 
 purposes of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. We examine the educational outco
 mes of children between the ages of 12 to 18 of the selected families and c
 ompare them with the children of the families that entered the competition 
 but were not selected to move to the Olympic Village.\n
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