School choice in England: evidence from national administrative data
School choice in England: evidence from national administrative data
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DOI：
10.1080/03054985.2019.1604332
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发表时间：
2019-05-19
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2
通讯作者：
Vignoles, Anna
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作者：
Burgess, Simon;Greaves, Ellen;Vignoles, Anna
我们使用一个新的数据集来研究英格兰的学校选择，该数据集包含了所有在公立中学寻求学校的家长的选择。我们提供了新的经验证据，以告知学校选择市场的功能，包括选择的数量，最近的学校是否是第一选择，以及从第一选择学校提供的概率。这些指标表明，在英格兰，许多家庭积极地选择学校。我们使用丰富的数据来描述选择如何因学生，学校和社区特征而异，以及不同群体和国家不同地区如何不同地使用学校选择。我们第一次能够提供全国数据，说明父母如何根据学生的族裔群体以及城市和农村地区做出不同的学校选择。我们发现，相反的一些现有的文献，依赖于较小的和不具有代表性的样本的家长和学生，学校的选择并没有显着不同的社会背景。我们表明，家长积极主动地使用选择系统，并提出新的证据，在何种程度上，目前的学校招生标准，优先考虑距离惩罚贫困家庭。
We study school choice in England using a new dataset containing the choices of all parents seeking a school place in state secondary schools. We provide new empirical evidence to inform how the school choice market functions, including the number of choices made, whether the nearest school is the first choice and the probability of an offer from the first choice school. These indicators show that school choice is actively used by many households in England. We use the rich data available to describe how choices vary by pupil, school and neighbourhood characteristics and how school choice is used differently by different groups and in different parts of the country. For the first time, we are able to present national data on how the school choices made by parents vary according to pupils' ethnic group and across urban and rural areas. We show, contrary to some existing literature that has relied on smaller and less representative samples of parents and pupils, that school choices do not vary significantly by social background. We show that parents pro-actively use the choice system and present new evidence on the extent to which the current school admissions criteria that prioritise distance penalise poorer families.