Do better schools matter? Parental valuation of elementary education

By Sandra E. Black. 1999

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Credit Supply and the Price of Housing (2015, unknown): “Holmes (1998) and Black (1999) exploit border discontinuities in other contexts.”
Estimating the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach (2002, unknown): “Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University for research support. I have benefited from helpful comments from Guido Imbens, Chris Flinn, Josh Angrist, Petra Todd, Jin Hahn, Ken Wolpin, Frank Vella, Robert Moffitt, Tom Kane, seminar participants at Brown, Harvard, Indiana, NYU, Princeto”
Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools (2004, background): “Others have examined the relationship between local school characteristics or other policy variables and property values (Oates 1969; Black 1999) or the equilibrium demographic composition of communities (Cutler et al. 1993; Vigdor 2002).”
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools? (2007, background): “t=0 0t+ 1tXit+ 2tP ijt+ 3tQjt+ 4tIi+ it) + iT (4)”
Valuing School Quality, Better Transport, and Lower Crime: Evidence from House Prices (2008, methodology): “Is there any other accompanying evidence that lends support to the idea that the regressions really detect what they claim to detect? A number of the studies have translated the capitalised values into monetary equivalents: for example, Black (1999) prices a one-standard deviation increase at around”
Evaluating the Impact of Innovation Incentives: Evidence from an Unexpected Shortage of Funds (2015, unknown): “The main idea behind this research design (see: Thistlethwaite and Campbell, 1960; Angrist and Lavy, 1999; Black, 1999; and van der Klaauw, 2002) is that firms that applied just before the cutoff are good comparisons to those that applied just after the cutoff.”
School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime Evidence from the end of busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (2014, methodology): “We cluster the standard errors at both the prior school zone and new school zone by parcel group levels, using the multiway clustering procedure in Cameron et al. (2011). With old school zone by neighborhood fixed effects ( zj), the coefficient on PctMinorityizjc captures changes in school racial co”
Estimating the Peace Dividend: The Impact of Violence on House Prices in Northern Ireland (2009, unknown): “More recently, Black (1999) is an excellent example of how empirical studies of these issues can exploit di¤erences across jurisdictions over time.”
Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient (2010, background): “Black, Galdo, and Smith (2007)), policy makers are often more interested in the e¤ects at the lower quantiles than at the upper quantiles. When analyzing the e¤ects of unemployment insurance on unemployment durations (e.g. Lalive (2008)), the distribution of the unemployment durations is of interest”
Electoral rules and voter turnout (2011, unknown): “The main idea behind this research design (Angrist and Lavy, 1999; Black, 1999; and Van der Klaauw, 2002) is that municipalities just below the cutoff size (with a single ballot) make good comparisons with those just above the cutoff (where the dual ballot applies).”
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles (2018, unknown): “An important public good is school quality (see Black 1999, Bayer et al. 2007).27 Using 2017 test score data of students between the 3rd and 11th grade on English and Mathematics from the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), we checked for possible discontinuities in…”