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Stephen B. Billings; Hugh Macartney; Geunyong Park; John D. Singleton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise. This increase is identified using narrowly-decided contests and is driven by non-Democratic members, whose neighborhoods appreciate about 4% on average relative to those of losing candidates. We find that student test scores in…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Board Candidates, Elections, Motivation