Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35936 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4632
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is revealed. In general, parents respond to information soon after it becomes available. Once the information is absorbed, they do not respond to subsequent releases, even when it is reframed and given widespread media attention. Parents in low-income neighborhoods and those who speak a non-English language at home respond most strongly. However, non-English speaking parents only respond when information is widely disseminated and discussed in the media.
Subjects: 
Information
school choice
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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