| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13443 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13443 |
| Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries | |
| Julie Berry Cullen; Brian A. Jacob | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-09-27 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we examine whether expanded access to sought-after schools can improve academic achievement. The setting we study is the "open enrollment" system in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We use lottery data to avoid the critical issue of non-random selection of students into schools. Our analysis sample includes nearly 450 lotteries for kindergarten and first grade slots at 32 popular schools in 2000 and 2001. We track students for up to five years and examine outcomes such as standardized test scores, grade retention and special education placement. Comparing lottery winners and losers, we find that lottery winners attend higher quality schools as measured by both the average achievement level of peers in the school as well as by value-added indicators of the school's contribution to student learning. Yet, we do not find that winning a lottery systematically confers any evident academic benefits. We explore several possible explanations for our findings, including the possibility that the typical student may be choosing schools for non-academic reasons (e.g., safety, proximity) and/or may experience benefits along dimensions we are unable to measure, but find little evidence in favor of such explanations. Moreover, we separately examine effects for a variety of demographic subgroups, and for students whose application behavior suggests a strong preference for academics, but again find no significant effects. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13443 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571116 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Julie Berry Cullen,Brian A. Jacob. Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries. 2007. |
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