TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Greaves, Ellen
AU  - Turon, Hélène
        TI  - School Choice and Neighborhood Sorting: Equilibrium Consequences of Geographic School Admissions
        PY  - 2024/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16805
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16805
        AB  - Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods according to income. Incorporating non-parents into the model challenges the existing understanding of how public schools affect the housing market: non-parent households dampen the equilibrium price premium around popular schools; non-parent households are never better off under geographic admissions.
        KW  - school choice
KW  - residential choice
KW  - school admissions criteria
        ER  -