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by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries and the opening of a new school to identify this capitalization …
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boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the proposal of a new school. Our findings from redistricting in the Fayette … county school district (KY) show that prices for homes redistricted from a lower-performing (based on test scores) school … into the proposed school catchment area increase by six percent. For houses in higher-performing school catchment areas …
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affected by the Great Recession. Using a rich panel data set of New York State school districts and a trend-shift analysis, we … in that they shed light on how recessions and fiscal policy can affect school finance dynamics, and provide important …
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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 …
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This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …
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School funding per pupil increased substantially between 1999-00 and 2012-13 in England. It also became more varied …
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The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …
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School voucher and education tax credit programs have proliferated in the United States over the past two decades … the issue by quantifying the regulations imposed on private schools both within and outside school choice programs, and … alternative ways of quantifying private school regulation, and to alternative regression models, and the question of causality is …
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