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Autor/inn/en | Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo |
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Institution | London School of Economics & Political Science, Centre for the Economics of Education |
Titel | Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuities. CEE DP 132 |
Quelle | (2012), (59 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Educational Quality; School Effectiveness; School Districts; Regression (Statistics); Admission (School); Elementary Schools; Academic Achievement; Housing; National Curriculum; Student Evaluation; Elementary School Students; Identification; Robustness (Statistics); Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) |
Abstract | Existing research shows that house prices respond to local school quality as measured by average test scores. However, higher test scores could signal better quality teaching and academic value-added, or higher ability, sought-after intakes. In our research, we show decisively that value-added drives households' demand for good schooling. However, prior achievement--linked to the background of children in school--also matters. In order to identify these effects, we improve the boundary discontinuity regression methodology by matching identical properties across admissions authority boundaries; by allowing for boundary effects and spatial trends; by re-weighting our data towards transactions that are closest to district boundaries; by eliminating boundaries that coincide with major geographical features; and by submitting our estimates to a number of novel falsification tests. Our results survive this battery of experiments and show that a one-standard deviation change in either school average value-added or prior achievement raises prices by around 3%. (Contains 6 tables, 3 figures and 13 footnotes.) (As Provided). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |