Calendrier du mois de 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.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 02/07/2019 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
NERI Lorenzo (Queen Mary University)
The Unintended Consequences of Housing Regeneration Projects
The demolition of public housing estates is often seen as a way to deal with the shortage of houses. In London, many public estates have been demolished between 2002 and 2015 to pave the way for new developments with higher housing density, leading to the creation of 30,000 new houses. I have constructed a novel database with all demolitions in the Greater London area using administrative records from the London Development Database. A difference in difference analysis reveals that the demolition of an estate affects the surrounding neighborhood in terms of economic development, house prices and local businesses. I will study how these effects spill over to the preference of parents for local schools, and whether there are broader social costs of demolitions for communities and children in particular.