School choice during a period of radical school reform. Evidence from academy conversion in England

IF 0.4 Q4 ECONOMICS
Marco Bertoni, S. Gibbons, Olmo Silva
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Abstract

We study how demand responds to the rebranding of existing state schools as autonomous ‘academies’ in the context of a radical and large-scale reform to the English education system. The academy programme encouraged schools to opt out of local state control and funding, but provided parents and students with limited information on the expected benefits. We use administrative data on school applications for three cohorts of students to estimate whether this rebranding changes schools’ relative popularity. We find that families – particularly higher income, White British – are more likely to rank converted schools above non-converted schools on their applications. We also find that it is mainly schools that are high-performing, popular and proximate to families’ homes that attract extra demand after conversion. Overall, the patterns we document suggest that families read academy conversion as a signal of future quality gains – although this signal is in part misleading as we find limited evidence that conversion causes improved performance.
激进的学校改革时期的学校选择。来自英格兰学院转变的证据
我们研究了在对英国教育体系进行激进和大规模改革的背景下,现有公立学校更名为自主“学院”的需求是如何反应的。该学院计划鼓励学校选择不受地方政府的控制和资助,但对家长和学生提供的预期收益信息有限。我们使用了三组学生申请学校的行政数据来估计这种品牌重塑是否会改变学校的相对受欢迎程度。我们发现,家庭——尤其是高收入的英国白人——在申请时更有可能把改造过的学校排在非改造过的学校前面。我们还发现,主要是那些表现优异、受欢迎、离家近的学校在改造后吸引了额外的需求。总的来说,我们记录的模式表明,家庭将转学视为未来质量提高的信号——尽管这种信号在一定程度上是误导性的,因为我们发现有限的证据表明转学导致了成绩的提高。
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期刊介绍: Ekonomicheskaya Politika is a broad-range economic journal devoted primarily to the study of the economic policy of present-day Russia as well as global economic problems. The subject matters of articles includes macroeconomic, fiscal, monetary, industrial, social, regulation and competition policyand more. The journal also publishes theoretical papers in such areas as political economy, general economic theory, welfare economics, law and economics,and institutional economics.. The character and the scope of economic problems studied in many publications require a multidisciplinary approach, consistent with the editorial policy of the journal. While the thematic scope of articles is generally related to Russia, the aim of editorial policy is to cover politico-economic processes in the modern world and international economic relations, as well. In addition, Ekonomicheskaya Politika publishes Russian translations of classical and significant modern works of foreign economists.
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