What parents want: school preferences and school choice

Simon M Burgess; Ellen J Greaves; Anna F Vignoles; Deborah J Wilson

doi:10.1111/ecoj.12153

What parents want: school preferences and school choice

Simon M Burgess, Ellen J Greaves, Anna F Vignoles, Deborah J Wilson

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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
Pages (from-to)	1262-1289
Number of pages	28
Journal	Economic Journal
Volume	125
Issue number	587
Early online date	21 Aug 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12153
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2015

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Professor Simon M Burgess
- Simon.Burgess@bristol.ac.uk
- Cabot Institute for the Environment
- Centre for Market and Public Organisation
- School of Economics - Professor of Economics
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- School of Management - Professor of Public Policy and Management and Faculty Research Director
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