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The Importance Of School District Quality In The Columbus Real Estate Market, Ryan Karapas Apr 2019

The Importance Of School District Quality In The Columbus Real Estate Market, Ryan Karapas

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Using a random sample of 100 houses sold between the months of October 2018 and January 2019 in the greater Columbus, Ohio area, this paper investigates the relationship between school district quality and the selling price of houses. The results show that school district quality has a positive and statistically significant influence on the Columbus real estate market. An increase of one letter grade in school district quality (calculated using output-related factors such as student performance) leads to a 13% increase in the selling price of a house. When using the average house price in my data set of $254,000, …