residential sorting on school quality can explain this fact. We combine 15 years of data on public elementary school students in … North Carolina with geocoded school locations and proxy city size with a measure of school density in a local labor market …. Assortative matching between student advantage and school quality markedly increases with city size, accounting for 10% of the …

We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …