Yeah, there's a nice summary of some of these types of papers here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2007/RAND_WR460.pdf http://www.rand.org/pubs/workin

Yeah, there's a nice summary of some of these types of papers here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2007/RAND_WR460.pdf http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2007/RAND_WR460.pdf (section 2.3). Some people wish to extrapolate that lottery results proves that a (statistically) lower quality pupil going to a a good school is without benefit.