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ERIC ED574363: What's in a Name? Expectations, Heuristics and Choic... |
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Education policy worldwide has sought to incentivize |
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school improvement and facilitate pupil-school matching |
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by introducing reforms that promote autonomy and choice. |
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Understanding the way in which families form preferences |
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during these periods of reform is crucial for evaluating |
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the impact of such policies. We study the effects on |
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choice of a recent shock to the English school system-- |
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the academy programme--which gave existing state schools |
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greater autonomy, but provided limited information on |
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possible expected benefits. We use administrative data on |
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school applications for three cohorts of students to |
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estimate whether academy conversion changes schools' |
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popularity. We find that families--particularly non-poor, |
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White British ones--rank converted schools higher on |
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average. Expected changes in composition, effectiveness |
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and other school policies cannot explain this updating of |
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preferences. Instead, the patterns suggest that families |
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combine the signal of conversion with prior information |
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on quality, popularity and proximity as a heuristic for |
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assessing a school's expected future performance. The |
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following are appended: (1) Robustness checks; and (2) |
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Estimating Academies' Effectiveness using Legacy Enrolled |
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Pupils. [This paper was produced as part of the Centre |
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for Economic Performance's Education and Skills |
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Programme.] |
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Date Published: 2017-07-03 21:19:52 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED574363 |
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Item Size: 38306227 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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