The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

By J. Cullen, Brian A. Jacob, Steven D. Levitt. 2006

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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, background): “Like Cullen, Jacob, and Levitt (2006), Deming (2009a) estimates significant effects of winning a school lottery on the quality of school attended, especially among ‘high-risk’ youth, but no effects on Lotteries were random within population subgroups (e.g. by race or family income).”
Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement? (2015, unknown): “…of all lottery-based evaluations of school choice programs, and many of these studies (including the other voucher programs in Table 8) show zero or positive eﬀects in the ﬁrst post-lottery year (Abdulkadiroğlu et al., 2011; Cullen et al., 2006; Howell and Peterson, 2002; Wolf et al., 2010).”
CAN NONEXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATES REPLICATE ESTIMATES BASED ON RANDOM ASSIGNMENT IN EVALUATIONS OF SCHOOL CHOICE? A WITHIN-STUDY COMPARISON (2012, background): “As Cullen, Jacob, and Levitt (2006) point out, excluding students not observed in public schools in the pre-treatment period does not invalidate the random assignment because whether or not a student is observed pretreatment is determined before the lottery takes place.”
Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? (2020, background): “Cullen et al. (2006) suggest confusion between levels and gains may explain limited effects of admission to preferred schools in Chicago.”
Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2009, background): “The previous literature finds peer effects that range from close to zero (Cullen et al. 2006) to about 0.”
Student Enrollment Patterns and Achievement in Ohio’s Online Charter Schools (2017, background): “For example, Cullen, Jacob, and Levitt (2006) found that when students in low-performing schools were provided the opportunity to transfer to a new and better performing school, White and higher achieving students and students from more affluent families were more likely to utilize the open…”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “On the other hand, using randomized school lotteries, Cullen et al. (2006) find that school choice programs have little or no effect on academic achievement, and they suggest that this result may be due to parents making poor choices.”
Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, unknown): “In this light, the lack of consensus on the positive effects from attending such schools may not be surprising (Angrist & Lang, 2004; Clark, 2010; Cullen et al., 2006; Kling et al., 2007; Abdulkadiroglu et al., 2014).”