题目：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.

简介：韩璇，北京大学国家发展研究院博士生，本科毕业于北京师范大学数学科学学院，主要研究领域为房地产经济学、宏观经济学和教育经济学等。曾参加2018CES北美年会、担任第十八届中国经济学年会分会场主持人、《经济学（季刊）》匿名审稿人。

主持人：黄志刚教授

时间：12月19日周三中午12:30到13:30

地点：本部913会议室。