Billings, Stephen B.; Macartney, Hugh; Park, Geunyong; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise …, including via the manipulation of attendance zones, rather than improvements in school quality (as measured by test score value … Democratic school board candidates. These results suggest that partisan affiliation is correlated with private motivations for …