Determinants of private school participation: All about the money?
Determinants of private school participation: All about the money?
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DOI：
10.1002/berj.3608
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发表时间：
2020-03-03
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Henseke, Golo
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作者：
Anders, Jake;Green, Francis;Henseke, Golo
对于那些在20世纪下半叶在英国长大的人来说，众所周知，社会阶层或家庭收入与上私立学校有着密切的联系。然而，私立学校学费的增加和公立学校选择的促进对21世纪私立学校参与的预测者有潜在的影响。在这篇文章中，通过分析来自最近的一项具有代表性的出生队列研究的丰富的纵向数据，我们为这个问题提供了新的证据。考虑到送孩子上私立学校所需的高昂且不断上涨的费用，人们可能会认为这个决定完全与经济资源有关。然而，尽管这些仍然是一个重要因素，我们认为其他决定因素也很重要。我们特别强调了家长价值观和地理位置接近高质量公立学校的重要性：父母传统价值观水平每提高一个标准差，他们的孩子进入私立学校的可能性就会提高2.5个百分点，而被英国学校监察员评为“优秀”的最近的公立学校每多花一分钟的时间，他们进入私立学校的可能性就会提高0.2个百分点。我们还研究了那些“混搭”公立和私立学校的学生的特征，注意到他们在价值观方面与私立学校的学生相似，但经济资源水平较低。
For those who grew up in Britain in the latter half of the twentieth century, there is known to be a strong association between social class or family income and attending a private school. However, increasing private school fees and promotion of school choice in the state sector have potential implications for the predictors of participation in private schooling in the twenty-first century. In this article, through analysis of rich, longitudinal data from a recent, representative birth cohort study, we provide new evidence on this issue. Given the high and rising fees required to send a child to private school, one might think that the decision is entirely connected with financial resources. However, while these remain an important factor, we argue that other determinants are also important. In particular, we highlight the importance of parental values and geographical proximity to high-quality state school alternatives: a one standard deviation increase in levels of parental traditional values is associated with a 2.5 percentage point higher probability of their child attending a private school, while each minute of additional travel time to the nearest state school judged 'Outstanding' by England's schools inspectorate is associated with a 0.2 percentage point higher probability of attending a private school. We also examine the characteristics of those who 'mix and match' state and private schooling, noting their similarity to private school attendees in terms of their values but lower levels of financial resources.