Moving opportunities : The impact of mixed-income public housing regenerations on student achievement
Abstract
I use mixed-income public housing regenerations in London as a natural experiment to identify how schools affect low-income students’ educational achievement when affluent households flow into their neighborhood. I compare student achievement in schools in the same neighborhood located at different distances from a regeneration before and after its completion. I employ a grandfathering instrument for enrollment in treated schools to address potential endogenous mobility. Students exposed to regenerations have higher test scores at the end of primary school. I estimate that schools explain 65–81% of the overall achievement effects, which are mediated by changes in the student body’s composition.
Citation
Neri , L 2024 , ' Moving opportunities : The impact of mixed-income public housing regenerations on student achievement ' , Journal of Public Economics , vol. 230 , pp. 105053 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105053
Publication
Journal of Public Economics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0047-2727Type
Journal article
Description
The author acknowledges financial support from the Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom and Queen Mary College.Collections
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