TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving opportunities
T2 - The impact of mixed-income public housing regenerations on student achievement
AU - Neri, Lorenzo
N1 - The author acknowledges financial support from the Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom and Queen Mary College.
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Neighborhood effects
KW - Mixed-income housing
KW - Student achievement
U2 - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105053
DO - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105053
M3 - Article
SN - 0047-2727
VL - 230
SP - 105053
JO - Journal of Public Economics
JF - Journal of Public Economics
ER -