Parental preferences in the choice for a specialty school

Lydia M. Prieto; Jonathan Aguero-Valverde; Gustavo Zarrate-Cardenas; Martin van Maarseveen

doi:10.1080/15582159.2018.1442087

Parental preferences in the choice for a specialty school

Lydia M. Prieto^* (Corresponding Author), Jonathan Aguero-Valverde, Gustavo Zarrate-Cardenas, Martin van Maarseveen

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	198-227
Number of pages	30
Journal	Journal of School Choice
Volume	13
Issue number	2
Early online date	22 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2018.1442087
Publication status	Published - 3 Apr 2019

Keywords

UT-Hybrid-D
ITC-HYBRID
Alternative school
Conditional logit model
Discrete choice model
Magnet schools
Parental preferences
Rank-ordered logit model
School choice
Specialist school
Specialty schools

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