Effect of School Quality on Housing Prices in the Toledo Metropolitan Area: a Study on Which Measures of School Quality Have the Largest Impact on Housing Prices

Authors

Justin C. Warnes, The College of Wooster

Abstract

This paper investigates whether school quality has an impact on housing prices. Also, it examines which measures of school quality have the largest impact on housing prices. The study was conducted for the Toledo Metropolitan area for housing sales transactions for the year 2011. Out of all the school quality variables tested, performance index proved to have the largest impact on housing prices.

Advisor

Burnell, Barbara

Department

Economics

Recommended Citation

Warnes, Justin C., "Effect of School Quality on Housing Prices in the Toledo Metropolitan Area: a Study on Which Measures of School Quality Have the Largest Impact on Housing Prices" (2012). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 767.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/767

Disciplines

Economics

Publication Date

2012

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis