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