Long-Term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods
利用空间断点回归和迁移数据，分解了社区与学校对教育成就的长期因果效应，发现50-70%的社区改善收益来自更好的学校。
This paper estimates the long-term impact of growing up in better neighborhoods and attending better schools on educational attainment. First, I use a spatial regression-discontinuity design to estimate school effects. Second, I study students who move across neighborhoods in Montreal during childhood to estimate the causal effect of growing up in a better area (total exposure effects). I find large effects for both dimensions. Combining both research designs in a decomposition framework, and under key assumptions, I estimate that 50–70 percent of the benefits of moving to a better area on educational attainment are due to access to better schools.