TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices
AU - Neilson, Christopher A.
AU - Zimmerman, Seth D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - This paper provides new evidence on the effect of elementary and middle school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and school enrollment. Combining the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district with panel data on student test scores and neighborhoods of residence, we find that, by six years after building occupancy, school construction increases reading scores by 0.15 standard deviations relative to the year before building occupancy. We do not observe similar effects for math scores. School construction raised home prices in affected neighborhoods by roughly 10%, and led to increased public school enrollment.
AB - This paper provides new evidence on the effect of elementary and middle school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and school enrollment. Combining the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district with panel data on student test scores and neighborhoods of residence, we find that, by six years after building occupancy, school construction increases reading scores by 0.15 standard deviations relative to the year before building occupancy. We do not observe similar effects for math scores. School construction raised home prices in affected neighborhoods by roughly 10%, and led to increased public school enrollment.
KW - Education production
KW - Home prices
KW - Public school enrollment
KW - School construction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.08.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.08.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84913590433
SN - 0047-2727
VL - 120
SP - 18
EP - 31
JO - Journal of Public Economics
JF - Journal of Public Economics
ER -