The short-run impact of using lotteries for school admissions: Early results from Brighton and Hove’s reforms

Becky Allen, Simon Burgess, Leigh McKenna

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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. The results are complex: we see an increase in student sorting but we also see a significant weakening of the dependence of school attended on student’s prior attainment.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)149-166
Number of pages18
JournalTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Volume38
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 May 2012

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