کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354954 1434864 2007 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Parental choice and school quality when peer and scale effects matter
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Parental choice and school quality when peer and scale effects matter
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper presents a model of school choice with peer effects and scale economies within schools. Parents’ perception of school quality depends on resources and on the characteristics of the student body. A network of local schools of uniform quality will be optimal, even though different households prefer different qualities. Whether schools of different qualities emerge depends on the strength of peer effects. If peer effects are strong there will be an incentive for existing schools to select for ability and for new selective schools—state-funded and private—to enter. To discourage bifurcation of the school system into different qualities, peer effects could be weakened, say by grouping students by ability within schools (“setting”; “streaming” or “tracking”).

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics of Education Review - Volume 26, Issue 4, August 2007, Pages 501–515
نویسندگان
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