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Conference Program (865 KB)
Public School Choice and Student Outcomes: Choices, Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a School Choice Lottery
Presenter:
Thomas Kane, Harvard and NBER
Abstract: We use data from a public school choice lottery to estimate the effect of attending a 1st choice school on academic outcomes. On average, students do not have significant gain in test scores as a result of attending their first choice school. This is consistent with the results from prior studies of school choice lotteries and voucher experiments. However, using parental choices, we also estimate the implicit weight families attached to school test scores when choosing a school. (For instance, when a family was willing to bypass some lower test score schools to attend a slightly higher test score school far away, they provided us with information on the importance of test scores in their choice.) We find that students who placed high value on test scores in their choice experienced significant gains in test scores. Moreover, among those attaching low weights to school test scores, some subgroups experienced statistically significant declines in student performance.
The work has resulted in the following NBER working papers:
| w12145 Apr 2006 |
Justine S. Hastings Thomas J. Kane Douglas O. Staiger |
Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery (CH ED PE IO) |
| w11805 Nov 2005 |
Justine S. Hastings Thomas J. Kane Douglas O. Staiger |
Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program (CH ED PE IO) |
| w11794 Nov 2005 |
Justine S. Hastings Thomas J. Kane Douglas O. Staiger Jeffrey M. Weinstein |
Economic Outcomes and the Decision to Vote: The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation (CH ED LS PE IO POL) |