題目：Winning at the Starting Line:The Key School Education Premium and Housing Prices in Beijing

摘要：This paper estimates the valuation of elite primary schools in Beijing during 2013–16 based on the price premium of the residential housing in their corresponding school attendance zones. First, the regression-discontinuity method is applied and the sample is restricted to the area where the rental price difference becomes statistically insignificant across school attendance zone boundaries. In this way, the analysis separates the neighborhood effect from the school quality effect. Second, the paper proposes a novel instrumental variable, using a Voronoi diagram to construct a theoretical school attendance zone boundary. The theoretical boundary is used to solve the endogenous school attendance zone quality problem that school attendance zone boundaries are expected to change over time.

簡介：韓璇，北京大學國家發展研究院博士生，本科畢業于北京師範大學數學科學學院，主要研究領域為房地産經濟學、宏觀經濟學和教育經濟學等。曾參加2018CES北美年會、擔任第十八屆中國經濟學年會分會場主持人、《經濟學（季刊）》匿名審稿人。

主持人：黃志剛教授

時間：12月19日周三中午12:30到13:30

地點：本部913會議室。