that local policies have room to influence school segregation in this system. However, the impact of local educational … 1980's. This paper analyzes the effect of school choice and local educational policies on that inequality, known as school … segregation, in 100 Hungarian towns. We combine administrative data with data from a survey that we collected from municipality …

By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment … areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase … ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before …

This paper studies the evolution of school segregation in Sweden in the aftermath of the 1992 universal school voucher … school segregation. In particular, it exploits variation in school choice opportunities across municipalities, and provides … descriptive evidence that in regions where school choice has become more prevalent, school segregation between immigrants and …

This essay explores the post-Parents Involved options available to local school boards that continue to face the … Court’s lack of deference towards the Seattle and Louisville school districts’ stated goals for adopting the voluntary … higher education affirmative action cases by refusing to give deference to the policy choices of the local school officials …