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education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school quality using …' choice to attend high schools to identify the relationship between house prices and school performance. We exploit a change … in school choice policy that took place in Oslo county in 1997, where the school authorities opened up the possibility …
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The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference … findings indicate that many buyers are unaware of the relevance of school quality information and that real estate agents …
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This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated via spatial errors terms and via a spatial lag dependent variable and where the...
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The presence of lead paint significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral development, yet little is known about the value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. In this paper, we estimate the benefits of lead-paint remediation on housing prices. Using data...
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Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market. We assemble a large plot-level dataset with rich geographic data on housing sales...
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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 evaluations of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is …
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …
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designated primary schools.Whereas the multi-school dicing policy involves randomly assigning previously ineligible pupils to key … elementary schools through lotteries, the policy of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools … through alliance with elite schools. Moreover, the designated primary school for a residential complex can change from an …
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transmission mechanism for the origin-country school quality effects. It also assesses the empirical merits of two alternative … migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …
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Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …
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