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Schools and housing markets: an examination of school segregation and performance in Connecticut
Clapp, John M.; Ross, Stephen L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between house price levels, school performance, and the racial and ethnic composition of Connecticut school districts between 1995 and 2000. A panel of Connecticut school districts over both time and labor market areas are used to estimate a simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010724177
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The importance of education in today's economy
Greenspan, Alan - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010724201
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Using sibling data to estimate the impact of neighborhoods on children' s educational outcomes
Aaronson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1996
Studies that attempt to measure the impact of neighborhoods on children's outcomes are susceptible to bias because families choose where to live. As a result, the effect of family unobservables, such as the importance parents place on their children's welfare, and other unobservables that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005410941
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The effect of school finance reform on population heterogeneity
Aaronson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1998
This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the Tiebout model is that within-community homogeneity declines as a result of an exogenous decrease in the ability of jurisdictions to set local tax and expenditure levels. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419876
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Using market valuation to assess the importance and efficiency of public school spending
Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2000
instrumental variables strategy to estimate the effect of state education aid on residential property values. We find evidence that … or no competition from other public schools, in large districts, and in areas in which residents are poor or less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419892
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Teachers and student achievement in the Chicago public high schools
Aaronson, Daniel; Barrow, Lisa; Sander, William - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
We match administrative data on Chicago public high school students and teachers at the classroom level to estimate the … importance of teachers to mathematics test score gains. We show that sampling variation and other measurement issues are … quality. However, correcting for these problems, teachers are still economically and statistically influential. Replacing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419901
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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers
Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
place in regular community college classes. To analyze the effectiveness of such training, we link administrative earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419903
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Private school location and neighborhood characteristics
Barrow, Lisa - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419936
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Learning-by-doing, scale efficiencies, and financial performance at Internet-only banks
DeYoung, Robert - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001
In theory, Internet-only banks should have low overhead expenses, and thus should be able to charge better prices (lower fees, higher deposit rates, lower loan rates) and still earn normal profits. To test this theory, this study compares the financial performance of 10 new Internet-only banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419982
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School choice through relocation: evidence from the Washington, D.C. area
Barrow, Lisa - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1999
willing to pay $3,300 for schools that generate a 100 SAT point advantage. The evidence does not indicate that the choices of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005420007