| An inter-district school choice program was introduced into the Massachusetts state school system in 1992. The program allowed students to choose to live in a district other than their own as long as that district had the necessary capacity and had elected to participate in the school choice program. The first issue that I examine is why districts elect to participate in the school choice program. I test whether things like access capacity are motivating factors in their decision to participate in the program. Next I want to look at the issue of how student sort themselves and how that resorting may affect test scores and other important district characteristics. Initially I want to look at whether students elect to move from one district to another and then what district they actually elect to go to. Finally I want to look at real estate values how school choice affects the transfer of asset values from higher quality district to lower quality districts. |
