Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-28

  Gibbons, Stephen ^a   Machin, Stephen ^b   Silva, Olmo ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary discontinuities; House prices; School quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870985152     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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