TY - JOUR
T1 - The short-run impact of using lotteries for school admissions
T2 - Early results from Brighton and Hove’s reforms
AU - Allen, Becky
AU - Burgess, Simon
AU - McKenna, Leigh
PY - 2012/5/16
Y1 - 2012/5/16
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00511.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00511.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1475-5661
VL - 38
SP - 149
EP - 166
JO - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
JF - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
IS - 1
ER -