Market Signals: Evidence on the Determinants and Consequences of School Choice From a Citywide Lottery

We estimate school-choice preferences revealed by the rank-ordered lists submitted by more than 22,000 applicants to a citywide lottery for more than 200 traditional and charter public schools in Washington, D.C. The results confirm previously reported findings that commuting distance, schoo demogra...

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Published in:Educational evaluation and policy analysis 2017-12, Vol.39 (4), p.593-619
Main Authors: Glazerman, Steven, Dotter, Dallas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Campuses
Charter Schools
Commuting
Demography
Diversity (Institutional)
Elementary Secondary Education
Enrollments
Evidence
Heterogeneity
Income
Institutional Characteristics
Neighborhoods
Policy Analysis
Policy making
Predictor Variables
Preferences
Public Schools
Race
Racial Differences
Regression (Statistics)
School Choice
School Segregation
School Statistics
Schools
Segregation
Simulation
Statistical Analysis
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Summary:We estimate school-choice preferences revealed by the rank-ordered lists submitted by more than 22,000 applicants to a citywide lottery for more than 200 traditional and charter public schools in Washington, D.C. The results confirm previously reported findings that commuting distance, schoo demographics, and academic indicators play important roles in school choice and that there is considerable heterogeneity of preferences. Higher and lower income choosers respond to academic quality measures, but respond to different indicators of quality. Simulations suggest segregation by race and income would be reduced and enrollment in high-performing schools increased if policymakers were to relax school capacity constraints in individual campuses. The simulations also suggest that removing the lowest performing schools as choice options couldfurther reduce segregation and increase enrollment in high-performing schools.
ISSN:0162-3737
1935-1062
DOI:10.3102/0162373717702964