@techreport{NBERw17438,
 title = "School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment",
 author = "David J. Deming and Justine S. Hastings and Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "17438",
 year = "2011",
 month = "September",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w17438",
 abstract = {We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (CMS) on postsecondary attainment. We match CMS administrative records to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), a nationwide database of college enrollment. Among applicants with low-quality neighborhood schools, lottery winners are more likely than lottery losers to graduate from high school, attend a four-year college, and earn a bachelor’s degree. They are twice as likely to earn a degree from an elite university. The results suggest that school choice can improve students’ longer-term life chances when they gain access to schools that are better on observed dimensions of quality.},
}