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School choice and neighborhood sorting: Equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions

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  • Greaves, Ellen
  • Turon, Hélène

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Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods according to income. Incorporating non-parents into the model challenges the existing understanding of how public schools affect the housing market: non-parent households dampen the equilibrium price premium around popular schools; non-parent households are never better off under geographic admissions.

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  • Greaves, Ellen & Turon, Hélène, 2024. "School choice and neighborhood sorting: Equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions," CEPR Discussion Papers 18886, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:18886
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    2. Georgy Artemov & Kentaro Tomoeda, 2025. "Zoned Out: The Long-Term Consequences of School Choice for Wealth Segregation," Papers 2511.09967, arXiv.org.

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    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand

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