UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY RATES OF RETURN TO ADVANCE EUDUCATION IN ALBERTA AND CANADA Parents exert some control over their children s school assignment via their residential location decisions, and can exit undesirable schools by moving to a neighborhood served by a different school district. As . metropolitan areas vary dramatically in the amount of control over children s school assignment that the residential decision affords to parents, one can hope to infer the effect of so-called Tiebout choice by comparing student outcomes across metropolitan housing markets (Borland and Howsen, 1992; Hoxby, 2000a).3.
