| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28283 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28283 |
| The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods | |
| John A. List; Fatemeh Momeni; Yves Zenou | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-12-28 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the spillover effects from a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We document large spillover effects on both treatment and control children who live near treated children. Interestingly, the spillover effects are localized, decreasing with the spatial distance to treated neighbors. Perhaps our most novel insight is the underlying mechanisms at work: the spillover effect on non-cognitive scores operate through the child's social network while parental investment is an important channel through which cognitive spillover effects operate. Overall, our results reveal the importance of public programs and neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age, highlighting that human capital accumulation is fundamentally a social activity. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28283 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585955 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John A. List,Fatemeh Momeni,Yves Zenou. The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods. 2020. |
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| w28283.pdf（765KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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