School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development
研究发现英国小学考试分数膨胀导致家庭围绕预期好学校居住，引发社区绅士化，并长期影响房价、贫困和当地经济活动。
We show that score inflation yields residential sorting around what households expect to be better schools, with long-term consequences for the economic geography of neighborhoods. We consider primary school exams in England, where grading standards have triggered an inflation of indicators in the national performance tables since the mid-1990s. Local neighborhoods were gentrified because of school improvements artificially signaled by score inflation. Competition between schools increased, yielding a real improvement in their quality. Effects of score inflation on house prices, deprivation, and local economic activities are identifiable through to the present day.