Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York.

Autor/inn/en	Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M.; Pathak, Parag A.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 48 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30308
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30308
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Schüler; Arbeitspapier; Pendelverkehr; Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; USA
Abstract	School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration. Urban school transportation is increasingly costly, however, and has unclear integration and education consequences. We estimate the causal effects of non-neighborhood school enrollment and school travel on integration, achievement, and college enrollment using an identification strategy that exploits partly-random assignment in the Boston and New York school matches. Instrumental variables estimates suggest distance and travel boost integration for those who choose to travel, but have little or no effect on test scores and college attendance. We argue that small effects on educational outcomes reflect modest effects of distance and travel on school quality as measured by value-added.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1