@article{166d4de38fc54a70b63e9dd55954152d,
title = "The push and pull of school performance: Evidence from student mobility in New Orleans",
abstract = "We investigate student mobility in a choice-based system that has gone tNew Orleans, to gain insight into an underlying improvement mechachoice-based reform and its potential equity-related consequences. In contypical analyses of mobility, this study distinguishes incumbent school teristics that can cause students to search for a new school (“push” factorthose features that can draw families to a new school (“pull” factors). evidence consistent with school performance playing both push and puHowever, for low-achieving students, the push of low performance at incschools is stronger than the pull of high performance at potential destinatioplying that low-achieving students are more successful in exiting low-perfschools than they are in finding higher-performing schools to attend.",
author = "Spiro Maroulis and Robert Santillano and Huriya Jabbar and Harris, {Douglas N.}",
note = "Funding Information: This study was conducted at the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University. We wish to thank the organization{\textquoteright}s funders: the John and Laura Arnold Foundation; the William T. Grant Foundation; the Spencer Foundation; and, at Tulane, the Department of Economics, Murphy Institute and School of Liberal Arts. We also thank Jane Lincove, Matt Larsen, and participants at the 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy and ERA New Orleans National Research Team conferences for useful comments on early versions of this article. In addition, we wish to thank Joanna Sanchez for research assistance and the Louisiana Department of Education for providing data. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1086/702734",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "125",
pages = "345--380",
journal = "American Journal of Education",
issn = "0195-6744",
publisher = "University of Chicago",
number = "3",
}