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| Title: | | The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices  |
| Authors: | | Neilson, Christopher Zimmerman, Seth |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6106 |
| Abstract: | | 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 project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years after building occupancy, $10,000 of per-student investment in school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a student receiving the average treatment intensity this corresponds to a 0.21 standard deviation increase. School construction also raised home prices and public school enrollment in zoned neighborhoods. |
| Subjects: | | school construction test scores home prices |
| JEL: | | I21 I22 H75 R30 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201111213488 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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