to pay to reside in a community with superior schools. Controlling for neighborhood characteristics and school financial … inputs, she finds that a 5 percent increase in the average test scores of an elementary school leads to a 2.1 percent … increase in the price of houses in that school's attendance district …

racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts …'s college readiness, high school quality, certainty of college admissions, and high school fixed effects. We then investigate … considering the social setting and high school feeder patterns of state universities. We find that racial and ethnic gaps in …

"Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence … of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to … examine the role of school starting age on longer-run outcomes such as IQ scores at age 18, educational attainment, teenage …