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Win Or Lose: Residential Sorting After A School Choice Lottery, Andrew Bibler, Stephen B. Billings
Win Or Lose: Residential Sorting After A School Choice Lottery, Andrew Bibler, Stephen B. Billings
Economics Faculty Publications
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 …
The Teaching American History Project: An Assessment Of Student Performance, Lewis Karstensson, James E. Davis
The Teaching American History Project: An Assessment Of Student Performance, Lewis Karstensson, James E. Davis
Economics Faculty Publications
This study examines selected effects of a teaching program in American history on fifth grade students in the Elk Grove (California) Unified School District.