We reexamine the relationship between school quality and house prices and find it to be nonlinear. Unlike most studies … in the literature, we find that the price premium parents must pay to buy a house associated with a better school … increases as school quality increases. This is true even after controlling for neighborhood characteristics, such as the racial …

By international comparison, Finnish pupil achievement is high and school achievement differences small. The Finnish … education system is unusual also because there are no national testing programs and information on school quality measures is … not publicly disclosed. Is school quality capitalized into house prices in this environment? Using a boundary …

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 …

proficiency levels by the end of the 2013-2014 school year. This study uses a residential sorting model to evaluate the benefits … of the NCLB to Las Vegas area homeowners. While existing studies provide marginal values for various measures of school … students in the elementary school assigned to their housing location. The estimation accounts for the endogeneity school …

We provide new evidence of parental demand for effective schools by exploiting shocks to school quality resulting from … the continual unexpected redistricting of school attendance boundaries in Atlanta, Georgia. Using repeat-sales of the same …