Win or Lose: Residential Sorting After a School Choice Lottery

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bibler, Andrew; Billings, Stephen B.
• 署名单位: Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00868
• 发表日期: 2020-07
• 页码: 457-472
• 关键词: quality; VALUES; capitalization; CONSEQUENCES; achievement; admission; mobility; vouchers

摘要

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.