School Choice and Parents’ Preferences for School Attributes in Chile

Hofflinger, Álvaro; Gelber, Denisse; Téllez, Santiago

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3365827

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“…In Chile, private-subsidized schools tend to be more desirable than public schools, while religious schools are generally considered superior to nonreligious schools, while private-subsidized and religious schools also tend to have a lower representation of low-income students than public or nonreligious schools (Madero-Cabib & Madero-Cabib, 2012; Canales et al, 2016; Hofflinger et al, 2020; Imbarack & Guzmán, 2019). Thus, we analyze effects in religious and private-subsidized schools.…”

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A New Admission System in Chile and Its Foreseen Moderate Impact on Access for Low-Income Students

Honey

Carrasco

2022

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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Chile is known for universal school choice policies and a high level of economic segregation. In part, segregation has been linked to selective school admission policies. Chile implemented a centralized school admission system (New School Admission System), where PK–12 schools must accept any applicant, and lottery assignment is used for oversubscription. We exploit a natural experiment due to the phased implementation across grades and regions to attempt to detect any effects of this policy on access for and representation of low-income students using grade-within-school and year fixed effects. Eliminating admissions barriers may contribute to increased educational opportunity, but the impact may be limited by the multiple structural factors shaping inequality in Chile. We find little short-term change in access for low-income students.

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A New Admission System in Chile and Its Foreseen Moderate Impact on Access for Low-Income Students

Honey

Carrasco

2022

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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“…Thus, parents are more likely to select the same school for their child where the siblings are already there [22]. Also, parents usually tend to select a school based on the place where they live [19,23].…”

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Factors Influencing Parents’ Decision to Select Primary School in Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Vindula

Madhuwanthi

2022

AJESS

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Aim: This study aims to examine the factors influencing parents’ decision to select a primary school in the Colombo district in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the study particularly examines the household characteristics and school characteristics influencing parents' decision to select a primary school in the Colombo district. Methodology: This is a quantitative study that employed a sample of 146 parents in the Colombo district. Half of the respondents have been chosen from public schools whilst the other half were from private schools in the Colombo district. A self-administered survey questionnaire was distributed to collect data and the logistic regression method was used for data analysis. Results: According to the estimated marginal effects (probabilities) of the final logit model, the school that parents attended and perceived academic performance had a positive effect on parents’ selection of a public school. In contrast, family income and discipline of the school had a negative effect on parents’ selection of a public school. Conclusion: Perceived academic performance and discipline of the school were the significant school characteristics influencing the parents’ decision to select a primary school while the parent being a past pupil of the school and family income were significant household factors.

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“…Hart and Figalo [4] found that in Florida, schools with "A" accreditation receive higher enrolment rather than schools with "B" or "C" accreditation. Hofflinger, Gelber, and Canas [5] found that parents with higher socioeconomic status prefer high performing schools in Chile. Erickson [6] noted that in the United States, parents value the school quality although it is not always the highest determinant.…”

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Multi-parameter Coordinated Public School Admission Model by using Stable Marriage

Kusuma¹

2021

IJACSA

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School admission is a very important process in improving the education quality. Meanwhile, one problem in the school admission system is the mismatch. There are unassigned applicants and unallocated seats. In Indonesia, zone-based model is adopted in the public-school admission system. Students are assigned to their nearest school. Besides location, student's academic performance and economic level are also concerned. Based on it, this work proposes coordinated public school admission model that accommodates flexible number of the concerned parameters. It is built based on the stable marriage algorithm or the deferred-acceptance algorithm as its derivative.The proposed model is a combination between the mandatory approach and the school choice approach. The concerned parameters are school-home distance, student national exam score, school rank, applicant poor status, and applicant's preference. The simulation is conducted to investigate the performance of the proposed model compared with the previous models: the zone-based model and the two-step model. The prioritization of the concerned parameters is proven easily adjusted. The simulation result shows that in the over-demand condition, the proposed model creates higher average student national exam score and higher average school-home distance rather than the previous models. When the number of applicants is twice of the number of seats, the proposed model creates 6.6 percent higher in the average student national exam score and 71.4 percent higher in the average school-home distance. The simulation result also shows that the mismatch is solved.

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School Choice and Parents’ Preferences for School Attributes in Chile

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

A New Admission System in Chile and Its Foreseen Moderate Impact on Access for Low-Income Students

A New Admission System in Chile and Its Foreseen Moderate Impact on Access for Low-Income Students

Factors Influencing Parents’ Decision to Select Primary School in Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Multi-parameter Coordinated Public School Admission Model by using Stable Marriage

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