Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across … districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental valuation of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is …

evaluative measures of school quality available to the general public. The most recent trends in state policies under … letter grades to rate school quality. Because school quality is one of a group of local public goods purchased along with a … house, one would anticipate that additional information about school quality would capitalize into real estate values. This …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences … and to construct selection-corrected estimates of treatment effects on test scores and high school graduation. We also …

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for estimating household preferences for school and neighborhood … to address the endogeneity of school and neighborhood attributes. The model is estimated using restricted-access Census … school increases by five percent. Second, much of the apparent willingness to pay for more educated and wealthier neighbors …