Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … 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 …

We examine residential relocation and opting out of the public school system in response to school choice lottery … outcomes. We show that rising kindergarten and sixth graders who lose a school choice lottery are 6 percentage points more … average school test scores between lottery assignment and attendance the following year. Using hedonic-based estimates of land …

We examine housing market and residential mobility changes that occur soon after a school fails to achieve Adequate … for oversubscribed schools, potentially increasing the attractiveness of living in a failing school attendance zone. We … find that housing prices, homebuyer income and the probability of attending a non-assigned school increase in the highest …