Deming David J, Hastings Justine S, Kane Thomas J, Staiger Douglas O
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gutman 411, Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02139 (
Department of Economics, Brown University, 64 Waterman Street, Box B, Providence, RI 02906 (
Am Econ Rev. 2014 Mar;104(3):991-1013. doi: 10.1257/aer.104.3.991.
We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners who attend their first choice school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among girls. Girls respond to attending a better school with higher grades and increases in college-preparatory course-taking, while boys do not.
我们研究了夏洛特-梅克伦堡学区公立学校选择抽签对大学入学率和学位完成情况的影响。我们发现,就读首选学校的抽签中奖者的大学成就总体上有显著提高。利用关于同龄人、教师、课程设置和其他投入的丰富行政数据,我们表明,学校质量的多项指标的提升能有力地预测选择的影响。成就的提升集中在女孩身上。女孩通过取得更高的成绩和增加大学预科课程的修习来回应进入更好的学校,而男孩则不然。