Moving opportunities: The impact of mixed-income public housing regenerations on student achievement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Neri, Lorenzo
• 署名单位: University of St Andrews; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105053
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: neighborhood effects; Mixed-income housing; Student achievement

摘要

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.