Calendrier du 11 juillet 2019
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 11/07/2019 de 12:30 à 13:45
CLARK Damon (University of California, Irvine)
What Do Families Want from Schools? Evidence from Real Choices and a Survey of Choosers
écrit avec Co-authors: Paco Martorell and Matt Wiswall
We analyze families' preferences for school characteristics using data from an urban school district in the Western United States. This district operates a public school choice system with a centralized school assignment process. Parents rank the public schools in the district and an algorithm assigns students to schools based on parental preferences, school capacity constraints and district priorities. In Fall 2018 we surveyed parents as they made these rankings. Our survey asked parents for their beliefs about the characteristics of the schools they were choosing and their beliefs about their children’s outcomes were they to attend these schools. The survey also include a discrete choice experiment that asked parents to compare hypothetical schools. We match these survey data to administrative data on parents’ real choices and other information from student records, including ethnicity, proxies for socio-economic status and test scores. We use these matched data to analyse parents' preferences for school characteristics.