have children in public schools. We argue that capitalization of school spending into house prices can encourage residents … data from school districts in 46 states, showing that per pupil spending is positively related to the percentage of … districts with more elderly residents who do not use school services and have a shorter expected duration in their home. These …

Like most states, Massachusetts underwent a large shift in public school enrollments between the 1980s and 1990s …, requiring a number of sizable fiscal and educational adjustments by individual school districts. Between 1980 and 1989, the … boomers reached school age, the picture changed and enrollments grew more than 90,000 over the next seven years. These …