Data and accompanying results for "Housing prices and school quality: A quantitative exercise using Greater Boston housing data" (Simon and Polutnik)

This Excel file contains information about median single-family home prices at the town level, and school, neighborhood, and demographic information for 152 Greater Boston towns to accompany the paper "Housing prices and school quality: A quantitative exercise using Greater Boston housing data" (Simon and Polutnik). The file contains multiple tabs, including the full dataset; correlation matrix for full dataset; dataset for in-class regression; correlation matrix for variables to be included in in-class regression; simple regression results; multiple regression results; and documentation.June 2026: we have updated the median household income and log income for Quincy.