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Title: Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities
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1. Borjas, George J.
Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities
The American Economic Review 85,3 (June 1995): 365-390.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2118179
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies; Human Capital; Neighborhood Effects; Parenting Skills/Styles; Socioeconomic Background; Socioeconomic Factors

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The socioeconomic performance of today 's workers depends not only on parental skills but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parents generation (or ethnic capital). This paper investigates the link between the ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence indicates that residential segregation and the external effect of ethnicity are linked partly because ethnic capital summaries the socioeconomic background of the neighborhood where the children were raised. Ethnicity has an external effect even among persons who ho grow up in the same neighborhood when children are exposed frequently to persons who share the same ethnic background. (ABI/Inform)
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Borjas, George J. "Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities." The American Economic Review 85,3 (June 1995): 365-390.