Abstract
It has been commonly recognised that school quality has significant impacts on housing prices in Western cities, however, how such school-housing relationships vary across different types of housing and urban space in transition economies is less explored. Our study aims to investigate the relationship between schools and housing in transitional China, where both commercial and Danwei housing coexist within the housing sector. This study makes three contributions to the literature. First, this study distinguishes the school-housing relationship across two types of housing—commercial versus Danwei housing as the unique housing characteristics in transition economies. Second, this study fully considers the neighbourhood effect on housing prices and unveils the spatial heterogeneity of school-housing relationships by spatiotemporal analyses and spatial modelling techniques. Third, this study establishes an analytical framework that can be applied to different contexts, and augmented in an assessing manner for the long-term evaluation of future education and housing policies.
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Wang, S., Li, Y. & Gao, Z. School-Housing Nexus in Urban China: A Comparative Study of the Effect of School Districts on Commercial and Danwei Housing Prices. Appl. Spatial Analysis 17, 417–438 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-023-09544-9
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