School district, education quality, and housing price: Evidence from a natural experiment in Hangzhou, China

Cities

Volumn 66, Issue , 2017, Pages 72-80

  Wen, Haizhen ^a   Xiao, Yue ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Difference in difference method; Education capitalization; Housing price; School district effect; Spatial hedonic price model

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION POLICY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; INCOME; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN HOUSING;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85017546570     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.03.008     Document Type: Article

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