School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment
Abstract
We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (CMS) on postsecondary attainment. We match CMS administrative records to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), a nationwide database of college enrollment. Among applicants with low-quality neighborhood schools, lottery winners are more likely than lottery losers to graduate from high school, attend a four-year college, and earn a bachelor’s degree. They are twice as likely to earn a degree from an elite university. The results suggest that school choice can improve students’ longer-term life chances when they gain access to schools that are better on observed dimensions of quality.Download Info
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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 17438.Length:
Date of creation: Sep 2011
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- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
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