Housing values and satisfactions of married students

1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Taneja
Keyword(s):  
Housing Values ◽  
Married Students

School Catchment Zone Mergers and Housing Wealth Redistribution

2021 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2110067
Author(s):  
Siu Kei Wong ◽  
Kuang Kuang Deng
Keyword(s):  
School Quality ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Housing Wealth ◽  
Housing Values ◽  
Wealth Redistribution ◽  
The Government ◽  
Empirical Design

This study investigates how perceived school quality affects housing values, using a new estimation method. Our empirical design takes advantage of the mergers of school catchment zones initiated by the government to develop quasi-experiments. We find that, in zones that gained sudden access to higher ranked schools, housing prices increased by 1.3 to 4.1 percent. Larger and more expensive houses appreciated more in response to the improvement in perceived quality of available schools. The findings generate important policy implications regarding housing wealth redistribution and housing expenditures among different households. The study also enriches the literature on the capitalization effect of school quality.

scholarly journals Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 678-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Currie ◽  
Lucas Davis ◽  
Michael Greenstone ◽  
Reed Walker
Keyword(s):  
Low Birthweight ◽  
Infant Health ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Housing Values ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Toxic Emissions ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Toxic Plant

Regulatory oversight of toxic emissions from industrial plants and understanding about these emissions' impacts are in their infancy. Applying a research design based on the openings and closings of 1,600 industrial plants to rich data on housing markets and infant health, we find that: toxic air emissions affect air quality only within 1 mile of the plant; plant openings lead to 11 percent declines in housing values within 0.5 mile or a loss of about $4.25 million for these households; and a plant's operation is associated with a roughly 3 percent increase in the probability of low birthweight within 1 mile. (JEL I12, L60, Q52, Q53, Q58, R23, R31)

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