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Valuing elementary schools: evidence from public school acquisitions in Beijing

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  • Xuejuan Su
  • Huayi Yu

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We utilize government‐sanctioned public school acquisitions in Beijing to estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for enrollment eligibility in sought‐after elementary schools. The spatial and temporal variation in these acquisitions allows us to estimate a hedonic pricing model in the difference‐in‐difference framework. Comparing regular elementary schools that are acquired by sought‐after schools to those that are not, we find an average price increase of 7 percent for apartments in the catchment areas of acquired schools. This percentage increase is both statistically and economically significant, and it does not vary by the size of the apartment. We also find heterogeneous price effects for different types of acquisitions, defined by their post‐acquisition organizational structures, but these differences are not statistically significant.

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  • Xuejuan Su & Huayi Yu, 2022. "Valuing elementary schools: evidence from public school acquisitions in Beijing," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 124(4), pages 1117-1141, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scandj:v:124:y:2022:i:4:p:1117-1141
    DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12475
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