Neighborhood effect and school performance: The case of students from public schools in the city of Recife

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This study aims to investigate the influence of the neighborhood over the students' performance in the public school system of Recife, Brazil. Specifically, we investigate empirically the existence of a relation among the students’ performance and the characteristics of their neighborhoods, and the mechanisms by which this influence occurs. For that, we use the data set of the Fundaj (2013) to build, in a pioneer way in Brazil, the neighborhood variables of the students regarding small geographic scales. Our econometric results indicate that the students that live in privileged neighborhoods tend to show higher scores than the others. The peer composition analysis suggests that only the proportion of the grade repetition influences the students' math grades.

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Julia Rocha Araujo, Federal University of Pernambuco

Graduada em Economia pela Puc-Minas(2005). Mestre em Economia pela UFRGS (2010), Doutorado em Economia pela  UFPE, Brasil (2017)

Raul da Mota Silveira Neto, Federal University of Pernambuco

Pós Doutorado em Economia pela UIUC.

Professor do PIMES/UFPE.

Professor associado do Departamento de Economia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Possui graduação em Economia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1989), mestrado em Economia pela Universidade de São Paulo (1995) e doutorado em Economia pela Universidade de São Paulo (2000).

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2020-06-10

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ARAUJO, J. R.; SILVEIRA NETO, R. da M. Neighborhood effect and school performance: The case of students from public schools in the city of Recife. Nova Economia, [S. l.], v. 30, n. 1, p. 287–4512, 2020. Disponível em: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/novaeconomia/article/view/4512. Acesso em: 30 jun. 2024.

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Vol. 30 No. 1 (2020)

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