How do school ‘report cards’ affect school choice decisions?
| Autor: | Jane Friesen, Justin Smith, Mohsen Javdani, Simon D. Woodcock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique. 45:784-807 |
| ISSN: | 1540-5982 0008-4085 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01709.x |
| Popis: | We estimate the effect of information about school achievement that is disseminated to the public through websites and school ‘report cards’ on school choice decisions. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when public information reveals poor school-level performance. Some parents’ school choice decisions respond to information soon after it becomes available. Others, including non-English-speaking parents, alter their school choice decisions only in response to information that has been disseminated widely and discussed in the media. Parents in low-income neighbourhoods are most likely to alter their school choice decisions in response to new information. JEL classification: I21, D83 Les auteurs evaluent les effets de l'information sur la performance des ecoles diffusee au public, via les sites web ou les ≪bulletins≫, sur les decisions de choix d'ecole. Il appert que les etudiants sont davantage susceptibles de quitter leur ecole quand l'information publique revele sa pauvre performance. Les decisions de choix d'ecole par certains parents repondent a l'information tot apres que l'information devient disponible. D'autres (incluant les parents dont l'anglais n'est pas la premiere langue) ne modifient leurs decision de choix d'ecole qu'en reponse a une information qui a ete vastement disseminee et discutee dans les medias. Les parents des milieux defavorises sont moins susceptibles de modifier leur decision de choix d'ecole en reponse a l'information nouvelle. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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