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
File Format
File Size
464 KB
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Repository Citation
Bibler, A.,
Billings, S. B.
(2020).
Win or Lose: Residential Sorting After a School Choice Lottery.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(3),
457-472.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00868
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