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来源

JOURNAL OF REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND ECONOMICS,Vol.58,Issue4,P.567-595

语言

英文

关键字

School segregation; Housing affordability; Academic achievement of poor children; CHOICE; SEGREGATION; VARIABLES; LIVE

作者单位

[Ihlanfeldt, Keith] Florida State Univ, Dept Econ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA. [Ihlanfeldt, Keith] Florida State Univ, DeVoe Moore Ctr, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA. [Mayock, Tom] UNC Charlotte, Dept Econ, Charlotte, NC USA. [Mayock, Tom] Off Comptroller Currency, Charlotte, NC USA. Ihlanfeldt, K (reprint author), Florida State Univ, Dept Econ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA.; Ihlanfeldt, K (reprint author), Florida State Univ, DeVoe Moore Ctr, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA. E-Mail: kihlanfeldt@fsu.edu; tmayock@uncc.edu

摘要

Children from poor families achieve more academically if they are enrolled in schools that are socioeconomically integrated, but low-income students are increasingly attending schools characterized by high concentrations of poverty. Providing more housing opportunities for low-income families within the attendance zones of middle- and high-income schools has the potential to reverse this trend, but the link between the housing stock and the socioeconomic segregation of public schools has not been addressed in the existing literature. Using a panel of elementary schools in Florida, we show that increasing the stock of rental and affordable housing units in middle- and high-income neighborhoods has an important effect on the number of poor children attending these schools. Our results also reveal the types of housing units that have the largest impacts on socioeconomic segregation.