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In this paper, I take advantage of a longitudinal data set, the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), to estimate the relationship between neighbourhoods and university participation among Canadian youth. I use the fraction of adults who have a Bachelors degree in a small geographic area surrounding a youth’s home as a proxy for the pool of potential peers and role models. Because the characteristics which determine where families live are generally correlated with university participation, I employ a conditional independence assumption to identify the neighbourhoods.