Pulled In and Crowded Out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-Based School ChoiceIndian Rupee

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Calla-Zuanna, Antonio; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G.
• 署名单位: European Central Bank; Bank of Italy; IZA Institute Labor Economics; IFS; University of Cambridge; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20220104
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: achievement; identification; admissions; students; BENEFIT; IMPACT; peers

摘要

We analyze the effects of reforming the high school admission system from a residence based allocation to a merit-based allocation. The merit-based system generates oversubscribed schools, which favor high-GPA students at the expense of displacing low-GPA ones. We use the potential outcomes framework to analyze the effects of the reform, separating the effects for those gaining access to competitive schools from those losing access and identifying these parameters by using the reform as an instrument within subpopulations defined by admission cutoffs and GPA. The small and negative overall effect of the reform hides large negative effects for the crowded-out students.