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Heterogeneous Preferences and the Efficacy of Public School Choice
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Affirmative Action Priority Boosts in School Lotteries
"In addition, the district gave a 'priority boost' to low-income students choosing to attend schools with low concentrations of low-income students. Hence, choices for top schools by students with underperforming home-schools would be given top priority."
Asymmetric Demand-Side Competitive Pressure
"We find that demand-side pressure is largest for high-performing schools that serve very elastic families and minimal for low-performing schools that serve inelastic, disadvantaged families."
Individualized Posterior Taste Weight Recovery via Bayes' Rule
"$\hat{\beta}_{i}^{S}$ is a posterior estimate of the weight each parent placed on school tests scores, calculated from our demand model using Bayes' rule... coefficient estimates for terms involving $\hat{\beta}_{i}^{S}$ are not attenuated by the usual measurement error bias because the measurement error $(\beta_{i}^{S}-\hat{\beta}_{i}^{S})$ is uncorrelated with the posterior."
Exogenous Boundary Redistricting for Sorting Control
"To test for the potential effects of residential sorting on our estimates, we re-estimated our model for the subsample of students who were reassigned... The estimated parameters were qualitatively and quantitatively similar in the reassigned subsample compared to those for the full sample, suggesting that endogenous residential location is not a major source of bias in this data."
Heterogeneous Choice Treatment Effects on Academic Achievement
"Using the exploded-mixed-logit model to estimate the weight that each parent placed on test scores when choosing a school, we find that students of parents with weights at the 95th percentile experienced significant rises in End of Grade test scores of approximately 0.1 student-level standard deviations, while students of parents placing little value on academics actually experienced declines in achievement."
Information Salience as Demand Elasticity Modulator
"Hastings and Weinstein (2008) find less heterogeneity, with most parents choosing schools with higher test scores, when they receive simplified information on school test scores."
Level-Based vs. Value-Added Quality Signals in Parental Demand
"The value-added measure in panel 4 does not fit the observed choice data well at all. This may not be surprising since this statistic is not available to parents and is not easy to calculate given the available average score statistics."
Marginal Priority Group Lottery Instrumentation
"We exploit lottery random assignment by analyzing the subset of students choosing non-home-schools that were oversubscribed and limit our sample to students in marginal priority groups within those schools - priority groups for which lottery number alone determined initial admission."
Multiple-Ranked Choice Identification in Exploded Logit Systems
"The multiple-ranked responses provided by each parent creates variation in the choice set by effectively removing the prior chosen school from the subsequent choice set. This choice-set variation allows us to estimate the distribution of values parents place on school characteristics from observed substitution patterns for each individual"
Parental Preference Heterogeneity in School Choice
"We estimate an exploded-mixed-logit model of demand for schools and find that higher-SES parents are more likely to choose higher-performing schools, while minority families must trade off preferences for high-performing schools against preferences for a predominantly minority school."
Proximity Friction and Transportation Zone Constraints
"Focusing first on the means of the coefficients, parents of both elementary and middle school students in all four subsamples were less likely to choose a school far away, and more likely to choose a school that had high test scores, was their home-school, had a majority of students their own race, was their school in the prior year, or was a school in their choice zone (assuring school bus transportation)."
Racial Peer Demographic Trade-Offs in School Choice
"This is particularly true for minority families who must sacrifice attending a predominantly minority school to select a high-test-score school. Our results imply that public school choice may widen rather than narrow the gap in achievement."
Socioeconomic Quality Elasticity Gradient
"The positive interactions with school score indicate that the average weight placed on school score increased with both neighborhood income and the student's baseline test score for parents of students in all four subgroups."
Strategic Hedging Mechanism Immunity in First-Year Choice Plans
"We tested for the presence of strategic behavior in the first year of choice by exploiting the redrawing of school boundaries... We did not, however, find significant differences in the exploded-logit parameters (particularly for the coefficients relating to school test scores) across families experiencing positive and negative shocks to their guaranteed school"