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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282353
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 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452375
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454701
This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention – The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project … – in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools … findings suggest that there is a modest impact on school participation: ROSC schools increase enrolment probability between 9 …
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This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …
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Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative …
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In this Chapter, we critically review the sizable literature that values school quality and performance through housing … significantly higher in places where measured school quality is higher. Thus parents are prepared to pay substantial amounts of …
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