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The short-run impact of using lotteries for school admissions: early results from Brighton and Hove’s reforms
Article first published online: 16 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00511.x
© 2012 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers © 2012 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 149–166, January 2013
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Allen, R., Burgess, S. and McKenna, L. (2013), The short-run impact of using lotteries for school admissions: early results from Brighton and Hove’s reforms. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38: 149–166. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00511.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 6 DEC 2012
- Article first published online: 16 MAY 2012
- Revised manuscript received 27 January 2012
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Keywords:
- school lottery;
- segregation;
- school admissions reforms;
- school access;
- education inequality
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.