Replication Data For: Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University; Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jonathan Schellenberg, University of California, Berkeley; Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley

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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Pathak, Parag, Schellenberg, Jonathan, and Walters, Christopher. Replication Data For: Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-04-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112266V1

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School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics. We study relationships among parent preferences, peer quality, and causal effects on outcomes for applicants to New York City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences and to construct selection-corrected estimates of treatment effects on test scores, high school graduation, college attendance, and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these schools generate larger improvements in short- and long-run student outcomes. Preferences are unrelated to school effectiveness and academic match quality after controlling for peer quality.

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      I21 Analysis of Education
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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