What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice
利用调查、行政、人口普查和空间数据，研究发现大多数家庭偏好学校学术表现，但社会经济构成和距离也重要，且不同群体偏好差异主要源于可及学校质量差异。
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.