The Valuation of Local School Quality under School Choice

Angela Zheng

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 509-37

Abstract: School choice programs break the link between residential location and school attendance, and should weaken the capitalization of school quality into house prices. For the first time, I quantify the effect of one such program—charter school expansions—across several states using a dataset covering charter entries and house prices. I embed an event study of charter entry into a boundary discontinuity design and find that, on average, school choice decreases the valuation of traditional schools by four percentage points. Suggestive evidence shows school choice can lead to neighborhood change through resorting as school boundaries become less important.

JEL-codes: H75 I21 I24 I28 R23 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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