education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. -- Basic and college education ; skill …

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel … data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close … elections with staggered timing, we show that increased school capital spending raises test scores and house prices on average …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … neither synergy effects nor interdependent preferences among classmates. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …

or impede performance by demoralizing employees. This paper uses school-district data and a regression discontinuity …

decisions affects the composition of teacher turnovers. Our setting is the Houston Independent School District, which recently …