Abstract
We investigate parents’ preferences for school attributes in a unique dataset 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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1262-1289 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Economic Journal |
Volume | 125 |
Issue number | 587 |
Early online date | 21 Aug 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2015 |
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Professor Simon M Burgess
- Bristol Poverty Institute
- Migration Mobilities Bristol
- Centre for Market and Public Organisation
- School of Economics - Professor of Economics
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