Dis-location considers the theory and empirical research behind the impact of school choice on residential segregation … segregation by lifting some and 'drowning' others. Is this assertion correct? This paper shows that the research is not clear …-cut. When school choice measures do not depend on the proximity of pupils to their chosen schools, residential segregation …

(student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal preferences submit different rankings of schools in … is sufficient vertical differentiation of schools, any equilibrium presents cardinal segregation. Transportation costs … facilitate the emergence of cardinal segregation as does competition from private schools. Furthermore, the latter renders the …