The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice

We are thankful to Chris Walters and Jesse Rothstein for their extensive support and guidance. We are thankful for comments and feedback from Natalie Bau, Christina Brown, David Card, Bruce Fuller, Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Hilary Hoynes, Leticia Juarez, Adam Kapor, Pat Kline, Julien Lafortune, Tomas Larroucau, Todd Messer, Conrad Miller, Pablo Muñoz, Christopher Neilson, Matt Notowidigdo, Mathieu Pedemonte, Tatiana Reyes, and Reed Walker. We also thank seminar participants at Boston University, Brown University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, UC Irvine, UCLA Anderson School of Management, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill, USC, UT-Austin, the University of Washington, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the University of Florida, the University of Pennsylvania, and the NBER Fall 2021 Education meeting group. Last, this project would not have been possible without the support of Dunia Fernandez, Jesus Angulo, Kathy Hayes, Crystal Jewett, Rakesh Kumar, and Kevon Tucker-Seeley, who provided institutional support, information, and data. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Center for Labor Economics. All remaining errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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