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Banzhaf (2021), we estimate the capitalization of school redistricting in a generalized DID framework that incorporates … significant differences in both the capitalization effects and welfare changes associated with the school redistricting. …
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Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...
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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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by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries and the opening of a new school to identify this capitalization …
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Understanding parental response to non-test score attributes is crucial to design effective school choice systems. We … study an intervention providing hard-to-find information on the school environment at local institutions, while holding … information on school performance constant. Outflow to private education is reduced by 17%, with larger responses among advantaged …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice … effects of school choice and competition, using precise geographical information on the locations of school buildings and …. We can measure the long-term effects up to age 25. We find that increased school choice had very small, but positive …
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school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …
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