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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment.

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.

SUBMITTER: Deming DJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4771417 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment.

Deming David J DJ Hastings Justine S JS Kane Thomas J TJ Staiger Douglas O DO

The American economic review 20140301 3

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 ...[more]

PMID: 27244675

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