The effect of school choice on participants: Evidence from randomized lotteries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cullen, Julie Berry; Jacob, Brian A.; Levitt, Steven
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; Harvard University; University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: ECONOMETRICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0012-9682
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00702.x
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 1191-1230
• 关键词: student-achievement; public-schools; college; vouchers; outcomes; MAGNET; IMPACT; youth

摘要

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for enhancing academic achievement. To evaluate the impact on participants, we exploit randomized lotteries that determine high school admission in the Chicago Public Schools. Compared to those students who lose lotteries, students who win attend high schools that are better in a number of dimensions, including peer achievement and attainment levels. Nonetheless, we find little evidence that winning a lottery provides any systematic benefit across a wide variety of traditional academic measures. Lottery winners do, however, experience improvements on a subset of nontraditional outcome measures, such as self-reported disciplinary incidents and arrest rates.