Researchers in economics of education usually assume that parents choose schools for their high academic performance, with some support from revealed preference evidence based on local house prices. (semanticscholar.org)
Yet while slowly but steadily rising interest rates may temper local house prices, those prices have also been steadily increasing. (bigrockinvestments.com)
Even RealtyTrac's note that the smallest growth in local housing prices came in areas hardest hit by Sandy (Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk Counties) may be purely coincidental. (newsday.com)