Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2014
Publication Title
American Economic Review
Department
Department of Economics
Abstract
We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners who attend their first choice school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among girls. Girls respond to attending a better school with higher grades and increases in college-preparatory course-taking, while boys do not.
DOI
10.1257/aer.104.3.991
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Deming, David J.; Hastings, Justine S.; Kane, Thomas J.; and Staiger, Douglas O., "School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment" (2014). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1673.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1673
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