TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental preferences in the choice for a specialty school
AU - Prieto, Lydia M.
AU - Aguero-Valverde, Jonathan
AU - Zarrate-Cardenas, Gustavo
AU - van Maarseveen, Martin
PY - 2018/3/22
Y1 - 2018/3/22
N2 - Choosing a specialty school involves huge challenges for families. This research aims to understand the behavioral process that leads families to choose among various specialty school programs. Discrete choice models, based on revealed preferences data from middle school applications in a large school district in Florida, are estimated using both, the top and all-ranked alternatives. This study returns insights into geographic settings, theme specialties and socioeconomic characteristics of applicants, schools and their relationships. Distance from home, the school’s academic quality, the school’s theme specialty, and the high percentage of applicant’s own race are found to be the strongest factors related to the decision to apply.
AB - Choosing a specialty school involves huge challenges for families. This research aims to understand the behavioral process that leads families to choose among various specialty school programs. Discrete choice models, based on revealed preferences data from middle school applications in a large school district in Florida, are estimated using both, the top and all-ranked alternatives. This study returns insights into geographic settings, theme specialties and socioeconomic characteristics of applicants, schools and their relationships. Distance from home, the school’s academic quality, the school’s theme specialty, and the high percentage of applicant’s own race are found to be the strongest factors related to the decision to apply.
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - ITC-HYBRID
KW - Alternative school
KW - Conditional logit model
KW - Discrete choice model
KW - Magnet schools
KW - Parental preferences
KW - Rank-ordered logit model
KW - School choice
KW - Specialist school
KW - Specialty schools
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://webapps.itc.utwente.nl/library/2018/ref/prieto_par.pdf
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2018.1442087
U2 - 10.1080/15582159.2018.1442087
DO - 10.1080/15582159.2018.1442087
M3 - Article
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 30
JO - Journal of School Choice
JF - Journal of School Choice
SN - 1558-2159
IS - 2
ER -