Win or Lose: Residential Sorting After a School Choice Lottery

Authors

• Andrew Bibler
• Stephen Billings

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Description

We examine residential relocation and opting out of the public school system in response to school choice lottery outcomes. We show that rising kindergarten and sixth graders who lose a school choice lottery are 6 percentage points more likely to exit the district or change neighborhood schools (20-30% increase) and make up 0.14-0.35 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 9-11% housing price premium for access to a school with a one standard deviation higher mean test score.

Publication Date

4-17-2018

Keywords

random school assignment, school district, housing choices, education

Recommended Citation

Bibler, Andrew and Billings, Stephen, "Win or Lose: Residential Sorting After a School Choice Lottery" (2018). Reports. 248.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_iser_reports/248

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11999