辽宁大学经济学前沿高端讲座第九十二讲 Schools and Neighborhoods: The Impact of School Attendance Boundary Changes

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收录时间：

2025-10-18 15:46:28

时间：

2025-06-16 14:00:00

地点：

辽宁大学崇山校区五洲园一楼会议室

报告人：

丁小舟

学校：

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关键词：

school boundaries, neighborhood demographics, housing markets, school quality, redistricting, household sorting, racial segregation, income segregation

简介：

This paper examines how changes in school attendance boundaries affect neighborhood demographics and housing markets across the United States. Using a nationwide dataset on school boundary changes, we employ a difference-in-differences framework and an event study design to estimate the effects of redistricting. Our findings reveal significant household re-sorting by race and income, with white households more likely to leave neighborhoods that experience school boundary changes and Black and Asian households more likely to move into these areas. Rezoned neighborhoods also experience increases in median household income, rents, and housing values, suggesting that perceived improvements in school quality are capitalized into local housing markets. Heterogeneity analysis shows that these effects are stronger when neighborhoods are rezoned to higher-performing schools. Block groups gaining access to better schools exhibit larger increases in housing values but experience declines in median income, reflecting economic re-sorting. These findings highlight how people-based policies aimed at improving educational opportunities can reshape neighborhood composition and economic characteristics, with implications for neighborhood stability and equity.

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