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Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - 2023

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. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...

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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Neilson, Chris - 2011

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 project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors : An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices...

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2010

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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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany : Moving with Natives or Stuck in Their Neighborhoods?

Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010

In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …, I investigate to what extent the lower mobility among immigrants in Germany is due to 'ethnic capital' as suggested by …

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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...

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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Kjellander, Josef - 2018

We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, we look at the price development in the year after the announcement. We...

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The Value of a Healthy Home : Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values

Billings, Stephen B. - 2017

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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Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values : The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Ortega, Francesc - 2016

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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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

May, Nils - 2015

Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such...

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