外文文献学区房 The effect of school quality on housing rents_ Evidence from Matsue city in Japan.pdf

Journal of The Japanese and International Economies 50 (2018) 16–25 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of The Japanese and International Economies journal homepage: /locate/jjie The effect of school quality on housing rents: Evidence from Matsue city in T Japan☆ Yuta Kuroda Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8576, Japan A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: This study investigates the effect of public school quality on housing rents within a school district. I estimate the Housing rent causal effect of school quality as measured by average test scores on housing rents, by using a regression dis- School quality continuity design to control for unobserved characteristics of neighborhoods. Specifically, I focus on apartment School district buildings located within school attendance district boundaries. I find that school quality has a significantly Regression discontinuity design positive effect on housing rents of apartments for families, but school quality does not have a significant effect on JEL classifi cations: housing rents of dwellings for single people. These results show that parents are willing to pay more to send their R31 ch