intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local … house prices lead to improvements in local school quality, thereby increasing child human capital and future incomes. We … endogenous school quality. Housing market shocks in the model generate large intra- and intergenerational wealth effects, with …

We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani …

Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd …, such as school closures and vouchers …

In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise …, including via the manipulation of attendance zones, rather than improvements in school quality (as measured by test score value … Democratic school board candidates. These results suggest that partisan affiliation is correlated with private motivations for …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

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 …

We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina … between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and … redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different sources of variation to disentangle the effect of schools and …

evaluative measures of school quality available to the general public. The most recent trends in state policies under … letter grades to rate school quality. Because school quality is one of a group of local public goods purchased along with a … house, one would anticipate that additional information about school quality would capitalize into real estate values. This …

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 …