School choice in California: who chooses private schools?
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A family-level model of public/private school choice for elementary and high school educational choice in California was proposed. Data from the 1990 census and supplementary information from private and public schools in California were analyzed to determine who chooses private schools under existing policies. Results showed that families make economically rational choices between public and private schools and that the choice of private schools is influenced by family income and tastes for education. It was also found that the cost of private schooling has no effect on a family's private school choice. These findings indicate that the effectiveness of educational vouchers for encouraging school choice is lessened significantly if family income and tastes for education rather than cost are the primary drivers of school choice.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 1998
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The religious factor in private education
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The religious factor in private education in the United States is quantified by calibrating a political economy model of school choice among public, private-nonsectarian and subsidized religious schools in which parents differ in their incomes and their preferences for religious education. The findings show strong latent demand for religious schooling, conditioned on current subsidized tuition level in parochial schools, which is suppressed by the need to 'pay twice' for private education.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2005
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The political economy of school choice: linking theory and evidence
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An improved methodology for linking theoretical parameters of a political economy model of school choice to empirical values estimated by regressing local private enrollment shares on mean income, the median-to-mean ratio, religious and ethnic composition and other variables is described.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2003
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