TY - JOUR
T1 - A spatial model of school district open enrollment choice
AU - Brasington, David
AU - Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso
AU - Guci, Ledia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - We provide an analysis of the determinants of adoption of inter-district open enrollment policies by school districts in Ohio. Legislation passed in 1997 allows Ohio's school districts to adopt one of the following open enrollment options: 1) prohibit enrollment of students from any other school district in the state (no open enrollment), 2) permit enrollment of students from adjacent school districts, or 3) permit enrollment of students from any school district in the state. We employ a recently developed spatial autoregressive lag multinomial logit model to examine the determinants of adoption of each open enrollment alternative. Among the most influential factors are school districts' demographic characteristics, financial factors, and competitive environment. More importantly, the results show evidence of strategic interaction, with a positive correlation in policy choice between neighboring school districts of about 0.4.
AB - We provide an analysis of the determinants of adoption of inter-district open enrollment policies by school districts in Ohio. Legislation passed in 1997 allows Ohio's school districts to adopt one of the following open enrollment options: 1) prohibit enrollment of students from any other school district in the state (no open enrollment), 2) permit enrollment of students from adjacent school districts, or 3) permit enrollment of students from any school district in the state. We employ a recently developed spatial autoregressive lag multinomial logit model to examine the determinants of adoption of each open enrollment alternative. Among the most influential factors are school districts' demographic characteristics, financial factors, and competitive environment. More importantly, the results show evidence of strategic interaction, with a positive correlation in policy choice between neighboring school districts of about 0.4.
KW - C21
KW - C25
KW - H75
KW - I22
KW - R51
KW - School choice
KW - School district open enrollment policy
KW - Spatial autoregressive lag
KW - Spatial multinomial logit
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U2 - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2015.10.005
DO - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2015.10.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946867237
VL - 56
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Regional Science and Urban Economics
JF - Regional Science and Urban Economics
SN - 0166-0462
ER -