Affiliation:
1. Public Policy Institute of California (email: )
2. Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University (email: )
Abstract
We study school facility investments using administrative records from Los Angeles. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the timing of new facility openings and using a residential assignment instrument, we find positive impacts on test scores, attendance, and house prices. Effects are not driven by changes in class size, peers, teachers, or principals, but some evidence points toward increased facility quality. We evaluate program efficiency using implied future earnings and housing capitalization. For each dollar spent, the program generated $1.62 in household value, with about 24 percent coming directly through test score gains and 76 percent from capitalization of non-test-score amenities. (JEL H75, H76, I21, I26, J31, R31, R53)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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