Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal impact, this study exploits the timing of moving into these neighborhoods. I argue that the timing can be taken as exogenous because of long waiting lists for social housing in high-demand areas. Using this approach, I find no evidence for negative short-term effects on teenage test scores. 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an openaccess article under the CCBY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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