Tuesday, March 17, 2026 13:30 - 14:45

This event is both online and in person.

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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About this event

In the US, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent residential sorting in the context of zoned schooling explains 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 the number of public elementary schools in a local labor market. Residential sorting increases with city size, which increases assortative matching between student advantage and school quality markedly. Assortative matching accounts for 10% of the city-size gradient in test score inequality.

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Directions

This event will take place in SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH.

Online participants are welcome:
Please sign up to our mailinglist (seminar_ceplab) to receive event updates and a link to the seminar online.

The building is labelled SAL on the LSE campus map. You can also find us on Google Maps. For further information, go to contact us.

Labour Markets Workshops are part of the CEP's Labour Markets programme.