What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice

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12 janvier 2016

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Apollo - Entrepôt de l'université de Cambridge

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University of Cambridge

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School, Choice of Schools--Selection Choice of school Parents' choice of school Competence

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Simon Burgess et al., « What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice », Apollo - Entrepôt de l'université de Cambridge, ID : 10670/1.36f51c...

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We investigate parents’ preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey, administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating characteristics of households, schools and home–school distance, we show that most families have strong preferences for schools’ academic performance. Parents also value schools’ socio-economic composition and distance, which may limit the potential of school choice to improve academic standards. Most of the variation in preferences for school quality across socio-economic groups arises from differences in the quality of accessible schools rather than differences in parents’ preferences, although more advantaged parents have stronger preferences for academic performance.

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