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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York / Joshua Angrist, Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Clemence M. Idoux, Parag A. Pathak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angrist, Joshua.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30308.
- NBER working paper series no. w30308
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2022.
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