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by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries and the opening of a new school to identify this capitalization …
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boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the proposal of a new school. Our findings from redistricting in the Fayette … county school district (KY) show that prices for homes redistricted from a lower-performing (based on test scores) school … into the proposed school catchment area increase by six percent. For houses in higher-performing school catchment areas …
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prices has been widely used in the literature of hedonic estimation in the past decade. However, concerns have been raised … Banzhaf (2021), we estimate the capitalization of school redistricting in a generalized DID framework that incorporates … significant differences in both the capitalization effects and welfare changes associated with the school redistricting. …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …
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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 …
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This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline's frequency on a route to its own characteristics and to the frequencies of...
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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 …
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Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...
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