Promise scholarship programs as place-making policy: Evidence from school enrollment and housing prices
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Several promise programs have been shown to increase local population, through increased in-migration and reduced out-migration.
“Several promise programs have been shown to increase local population, through increased inmigration and reduced out-migration (LeGower & Walsh, 2017, Bartik & Sotherland, 2015, Sohn, et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- LeGower, M., & Walsh, R.
- Affiliations
- Federal Trade Commission (US)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Walsh, Randall
- Venue
- Journal of Urban Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-09
- Volume
- 101
- Pages
- 74-89
- ISSN
- 0094-1190 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1601884846
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 16.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Urban Economics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Keywords
- student enrollment, housing prices, merit scholarships, school segregation, school quality
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