IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/houspd/v31y2021i6p988-1008.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Homeownership and Students’ Achievement in Public Schools in the U.S. State of Georgia

Author

Listed:
  • Ramesh Ghimire

Abstract

We investigate the impact of neighborhood homeownership rates on students’ achievement in public schools in the U.S. state of Georgia. Homeownership and students’ achievement are likely to be endogenously determined at the neighborhood level. We correct for this endogeneity concern using population growth as the instrument for the neighborhood homeownership rate. The findings suggest that a 1-percentage-point increase in homeownership rate at the census tract level increased the percentage of proficient learners and above in third-grade reading by 0.24 percentage points, and the effects are stronger—economically and statistically—in estimates that correct for the endogeneity of neighborhood homeownership rates. Further, the effects of homeownership are much larger in the sample of low-income, less affluent, or more black or African American-dominated neighborhoods, compared with the overall sample.

Suggested Citation

  • Ramesh Ghimire, 2021. "Homeownership and Students’ Achievement in Public Schools in the U.S. State of Georgia," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 988-1008, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:31:y:2021:i:6:p:988-1008
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2021.1931931
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/10511482.2021.1931931
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/10511482.2021.1931931?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:31:y:2021:i:6:p:988-1008. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RHPD20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.