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What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice

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Burgess, Simon, Greaves, Ellen, Vignoles, Anna, Wilson, Deborah·2015·The Economic Journal
DOI 10.1111/ecoj.12153
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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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Authors
Burgess, S., Greaves, E., Vignoles, A., & Wilson, D.
Venue
The Economic Journal
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2014-08-21
Volume
125
Issue
587
Pages
1262-1289
ISSN
0013-0133 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/ecoj.12153
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W2169477753
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377
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102.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
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