We reexamine the relationship between school quality and house prices and find it to be nonlinear. Unlike most studies … in the literature, we find that the price premium parents must pay to buy a house associated with a better school … increases as school quality increases. This is true even after controlling for neighborhood characteristics, such as the racial …

This paper investigates the dynamics of school quality capitalization during the boom–bust cycle of the housing market … and recovery periods saw a decline in valuation for top schools. Hence, the capitalization of school quality exhibits a …

on unobservables. -- secondary school choice ; school quality ; instrumental variable estimation ; selection on …This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further …

are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …