TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
TI  - Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4912
PY  - 1994
Y2  - November 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4912
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4912.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
AB  - 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 parent's 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 summarizes the socioeconomic background of the neighborhood where the children were raised.  Ethnicity has an external effect, even among persons who grow up in the same neighborhood, when children are exposed frequently to persons who share the same ethnic background.
ER  -