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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of voter-approved school bond issues on school district balance sheets, local housing … prices, and student achievement. We draw on the unique characteristics of California's system of school finance to obtain … clean identification of bonds' causal effects, comparing districts in which school bond referenda passed or failed by narrow …

In 1994 the state of Michigan implemented one of the most comprehensive school finance reforms undertaken to date in …

the universe of housing transactions for a large sample of school districts; and (ii) using the timelines of school … of the rise in public school spending. School districts did not boost administrative costs with those additional funds … accompanied by improvements in the quality of school inputs …

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 …

"Accountability mandates" -- the explicit linking of school funding, resources, and autonomy to student performance on … performance of "numerically significant subgroups" within a school was to reduce the relative resources of schools attended by … schools. In the 2000 school year, the average value of the award was about 60 dollars per student and 50 dollars in 2001 …

allocation, and monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey we found that people were not …

8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to … residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents … income and tastes for schools. This model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school …

students at the beginning and end of the school day. The time and date stamps on the photographs were used to track teacher …