Is comprehensive education really free?: A case-study of the effects of secondary school admissions policies on house prices in one local area

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-154

  Leech, Dennis ^a   Campos, Erick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coventry; Hedonic price functions; House prices; Sample design; Schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644222338     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00263     Document Type: Article

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