RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Public Goods, Private Goods, and School Preferences
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 53
OP 82
DO 10.17763/1943-5045-93.1.53
VO 93
IS 1
A1 FINGER, LESLIE K.
A1 HOUSTON, DAVID M.
YR 2023
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/93/1/53.abstract
AB In this research article, Leslie K. Finger and David M. Houston explore how different ideas about the objectives of education can influence families’ schooling preferences and choices. For their study they employed a conjoint experiment embedded in an online survey to examine participants’ preferences for various school characteristics, including distance from home, academic performance as measured by test scores, and the racial/ethnic and economic makeup of the student body. Their evidence suggests a pattern of school choices that could contribute to racial/ethnic segregation.