Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2-2020

Publication Title

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volume

102

Issue

3

First page number:

457

Last page number:

472

Abstract

We examine residential relocation and opting out of the public school system in response to school choice lottery outcomes. We show that rising kindergartners and sixth graders who lose a school choice lottery are 6 percentage points more likely to exit the district or change neighborhood schools (20% to 30% increase) and make up 0.14 to 0.35 standard deviations in average school test scores between lottery assignment and attendance the following year. Using hedonic-based estimates of land prices, we estimate that lottery losers pay a 9% to 11% housing price premium for access to a school with a 1 standard deviation higher mean test score.

Disciplines

Disability and Equity in Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Education Economics

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File Size

464 KB

Language

English

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