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6. References

6.1 Data Sources

  1. Housing & Development Board (HDB). Resale Flat Prices. Data.gov.sg. Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets?query=resale+flat+prices. Datasets used:

    • Resale Flat Prices Based on Approval Date, 2000 -- Feb 2012
    • Resale Flat Prices Based on Registration Date, Mar 2012 -- Dec 2014
    • Resale Flat Prices Based on Registration Date, Jan 2015 -- Dec 2016
    • Resale Flat Prices Based on Registration Date, Jan 2017 Onwards

  2. Ministry of Education (MOE). General Information of Schools. Data.gov.sg. Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_688b934f82c1059ed0a6993d2a829089/view.

  3. Ministry of Education (MOE). Subjects Offered by Schools. Data.gov.sg. Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f1d144e423570c9d84dbc5102c2e664d/view.

  4. Ministry of Education (MOE). School Distinctive Programmes. Data.gov.sg. Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_db1faeea02c646fa3abccfa5aba99214/view.

  5. Ministry of Education (MOE). Co-Curricular Activities (CCAs). Data.gov.sg. Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets?agencies=MOE&resultId=d_9aba12b5527843afb0b2e8e4ed6ac6bd&page=5.

  6. SGSchooling. Primary 1 Registration Ballot History (2009--2025). Retrieved from https://sgschooling.com. Used for Phase 2B and 2C applicant-to-vacancy ratios and balloting indicators.

  7. National Environment Agency (NEA). Hawker Centres. Data.gov.sg (GeoJSON). Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4a086da0a5553be1d89383cd90d07ecd/view.

  8. National Parks Board (NParks). Parks and Nature Reserves. Data.gov.sg (GeoJSON). Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_77d7ec97be83d44f61b85454f844382f/view.

  9. Data.gov.sg. Supermarkets. GeoJSON dataset. Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cac2c32f01960a3ad7202a99c27268a0/view.

  10. Land Transport Authority (LTA). Bus Stop Catalogue. LTA DataMall API. Retrieved from https://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/BusStops.

  11. Wikipedia contributors. List of Singapore MRT stations. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Singapore_MRT_stations. Used for station names and opening years.

  12. Wikipedia contributors. Shopping malls in Singapore. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shopping_malls_in_Singapore. Used for mall names and opening years.

6.2 APIs and Geospatial Services

  1. Singapore Land Authority (SLA). OneMap API. Retrieved from https://www.onemap.gov.sg/apidocs/. Used for geocoding HDB addresses, school addresses, MRT stations, and shopping mall locations.

  2. Land Transport Authority (LTA). DataMall API. Retrieved from https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en.html. Used for bus stop location data.

  3. Data.gov.sg. Open Data API (v1). Retrieved from https://data.gov.sg/. Used for programmatic access to school information and amenity datasets.

6.3 Policy and Institutional References

  1. Ministry of Education, Singapore. Primary 1 (P1) Registration Framework. Retrieved from https://www.moe.gov.sg/primary/p1-registration. Establishes the distance-based priority system (within 1km, 1--2km) for Phase 2C school admissions.

  2. Ministry of National Development, Singapore. Housing policy and public housing affordability framework. Retrieved from https://www.mnd.gov.sg/.

  3. StackedHomes. Living Near a Popular Primary School -- The Data on HDB Prices Within 1km May Surprise You. Retrieved from https://stackedhomes.com/living-near-a-popular-primary-school-the-data-on-hdb-prices-within-1km-may-surprise-you/.

6.4 Methodology References

  1. Rosen, S. (1974). Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition. Journal of Political Economy, 82(1), 34--55. https://doi.org/10.1086/260169.

  2. Calonico, S., Cattaneo, M. D., & Titiunik, R. (2014). Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs. Econometrica, 82(6), 2295--2326. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA11757.

  3. Cattaneo, M. D., Idrobo, N., & Titiunik, R. (2020). A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations. Cambridge Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108684606.

  4. McCrary, J. (2008). Manipulation of the Running Variable in the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Density Test. Journal of Econometrics, 142(2), 698--714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.005.

  5. Anselin, L. (1988). Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models. Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7799-1.

  6. Hoerl, A. E., & Kennard, R. W. (1970). Ridge Regression: Biased Estimation for Nonorthogonal Problems. Technometrics, 12(1), 55--67. https://doi.org/10.1080/00401706.1970.10488634.