School choice and neighborhood sorting: Equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions

Ellen Greaves and Hélène Turon

Bristol Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods according to income. Incorporating non-parents into the model challenges the existing understanding of how public schools affect the housing market: non-parent households dampen the equilibrium price premium around popular schools; non-parent households are never better off under geographic admissions.

Date: 2023-11-28
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Working Paper: School choice and neighborhood sorting: Equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions (2024)
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