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In many cities, school choice policies enable students to attend schools outside the neighborhoods where they live. These policies can provide families with access to schools they prefer, but students often travel farther as a result. This new study uses student-level data to measure the relationship between travel time to school and students’ likelihood of transfer, attendance, and test scores in Washington, DC.
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Matthew M. Chingos is director of the Urban Institute’s Education Policy Program, which undertakes policy-relevant research on issues from prekindergarten through postsecondary education. Current research projects examine universal prekindergarten programs, school choice, student transportation, school funding, college affordability, student loan debt, and personalized learning.
Chingos is an executive editor of Education Next and coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt and Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities. His work has been featured in major media outlets and has been published in academic journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Before joining Urban, Chingos was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a BA in government and economics and a PhD in government from Harvard University.