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Do New Yorkers vote with their wallets?
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Do New Yorkers vote with their wallets?
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The impact of the release of New York City teacher quality data on housing prices and its effects on residential and school segregation
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Rivera Rodas
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Elizabeth Iris
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1983-
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Elizabeth Iris Rivera Rodas
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Jason M
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Jason M Barr
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ALAN R
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Jeffrey R
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Jeffrey R Backstrand
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Miller
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Lawrence C Miller
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outside member
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2015
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2015
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In February 2012, New York City released value added scores for its grade 4 through 8 public school teachers. There was little concern about the potential impact of the release of this public information on the housing values, residential segregation or school segregation for New York City dwellers. Since people “vote with their feet” (Tiebout, 1956), it is logical to believe that public information on teacher quality measures influences housing price, and resident and student mobility. Hedonic, fixed effects models were used to analyze the teacher quality, school report card, residential housing sales, and American Community Survey data. The housing market responds significantly to the new information provided by the release of the teacher quality information. The results also suggest that the highly debated release of teacher quality information has large implications on housing choices and an impact on school demographics. The results provide the first evidence of the effects of teacher quality scores on New York City’s housing market. An increase in teacher quality increases housing prices and this influences the demographics of neighborhoods and schools. The release of the data had some impact on increasing the average household income and educational attainment levels in less affluent and less educated neighborhoods. The results also indicate that home buyers who are responding to the data release are predominately White and are displacing Hispanic and Black residents. There are also changes that occur in the diversity of the school zones where the percentage of White students has increased in schools with high teacher quality and school diversity indices have decreased. Furthermore, the results show that there are teacher quality gaps between Title I and non-Title I schools putting students at Title I schools at a disadvantage. Not only are they being taught by lower quality teachers, the schools and neighborhoods that they are in are negatively impacted as the wealthier, more educated home buyers opt out of living and attending schools in these areas. As more affluent people move into areas with higher teacher quality, many of the low income families are being prices out and new policies need to be considered to make schools more equitable.
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Urban Systems
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Management
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Segregation in education--New York (State)
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Teacher effectiveness
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Discrimination in housing
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (xii, 188 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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by Elizabeth Iris Rivera Rodas
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Rivera Rodas
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Elizabeth
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Iris
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2015-04-27 17:48:09
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Elizabeth Rivera Rodas
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2015-05-31
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2017-05-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 30th, 2017.
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