The Neighbourhood is not What it used to be
利用方差分解方法，发现家庭特征和居住地显著影响挪威人的成年教育和收入，但邻里影响小于家庭，且从1960到1970年邻里影响减半，可能与60年代促进机会平等的政策有关。
Using a variance decomposition framework that bounds the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on adult education and earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children growing up in the same local community. The impact of neighbourhoods is reduced by half from 1960 to 1970. We link this result to several policy changes in the 1960s aimed at increasing equality of opportunity in Norway. Neighbour correlations in Norway are found to be significantly lower than in the US. Copyright 2006 Royal Economic Society.