The early impact of Brighton and Hove's school admission reforms

Rebecca Allen (), Simon Burgess () and Leigh McKenna ()

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation from The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: We analyse the initial impact of a major school admission reform in Brighton and Hove. The new system incorporated a lottery for oversubscribed places and new catchment areas. We examine the post-reform changes in school composition. We locate the major winners and losers in terms of the quality of school attended. We match similar cities and conduct a difference-in-difference analysis of the policy change. We see no significant change in student sorting: if anything, the point estimates suggest a rise in socio-economic segregation. We do see a significant weakening of the dependence of school attended on student’s prior attainment.

Keywords: school lottery; segregation; school admissions reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2010-08
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