Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/301095 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2024:3
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent residential sorting on school quality can explain this fact. We combine 15 years of data on public elementary school students in North Carolina with geocoded school locations and proxy city size with a measure of school density in a local labor market. Assortative matching between student advantage and school quality markedly increases with city size, accounting for 10% of the city-size gradient in test score inequality. Assortativeness is strongest in the high-income neighborhoods of large cities.
Subjects: 
assortative matching
inequality
residential sorting
JEL: 
I24
J15
J24
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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