The simple feature of eliminating a default school assignment by the school district — thus requiring every parent to engage in school choice —
eliminates socioeconomic differences in the likelihood that parents will shop for schools.
Not exact matches
This simple example illustrates that
eliminating the average
difference across the two groups will only remove all
differences by
socioeconomic status if there are no
differences in outcomes by
socioeconomic status within the broad income groups.
Simply put, just because a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to
eliminate the average outcome
differences between the poor and non-poor it does not mean that a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to
eliminate the
difference in outcome between the very poor and the very wealthy or
differences across other measures of
socioeconomic status.
We do not find that increasing spending by 22.7 percent will
eliminate all
differences in outcomes by
socioeconomic status.
These findings confirm those from a variety of previous studies, which have shown that adjusting the data for students»
socioeconomic status is usually enough to
eliminate most or all of the
difference between blacks and whites in educational attainment.