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- Title
The short-run impact of using lotteries for school admissions: early results from Brighton and Hove's reforms.
- Authors
Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon; McKenna, Leigh
- 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.
- Subjects
BRIGHTON (England); HOVE (England); ENGLAND; EDUCATIONAL change; EDUCATIONAL quality
- Publication
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
0020-2754
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00511.x