Choosing secondary school by moving house: school quality and the formation of neighbourhoods

Rebecca Allen (), Simon Burgess () and Tomas Key ()
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Tomas Key: University of Oxford.

No 10-21, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: This paper uses the pupil census in England to explore how family house moves contribute to school and residential segregation. We track the moves of a single cohort as it approaches the secondary school admission age. We also combine a number of cohorts and estimate a dynamic nonlinear model for house moving with unobserved effects. These approaches yield the same result: moving is significantly negatively correlated with school quality, and segregation does increase as a cohort reaches age 11. However, this relationship is weak: the increase in segregation is slight and quantitative significance of the estimated relationship is low.

Keywords: school quality; moving; segregation; neighbourhoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12-31
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