The Impact of Public School Choice. Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice.

Autor/inn/en	Campos, Christopher; Kearns, Caitlin
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The Impact of Public School Choice. Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2023) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w31553
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w31553
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Schulpolitik; Bildungsertrag; Schule; Schulwahl; Schulbezirk; Weiterführende Schule; Dienstleistung; Arbeitspapier; Qualität; Wirkungsanalyse; Los Angeles, Calif.
Abstract	Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in place throughout the rest of the district. We study market-level impacts of choice on student achievement and college enrollment using a differences-in-differences design. Student outcomes in ZOC markets increased markedly, narrowing achievement and college enrollment gaps between ZOC neighborhoods and the rest of the district. The effects of ZOC are larger for schools exposed to more competition, supporting the notion that competition is a key channel. Demand estimates suggest families place substantial weight on schools' academic quality, providing schools with competition-induced incentives to improve their effectiveness. The evidence demonstrates that public school choice programs have the potential to improve school quality and reduce neighborhood-based disparities in educational opportunity.
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Update	2024/1