Parental Responses to Information about School Quality: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Greaves, Ellen; Hussain, Iftikhar; Rabe, Birgitta; Rasul, Imran
• 署名单位: University of Bristol; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Sussex; University of Essex; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead015
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 2334-2402
• 关键词: report cards; ACCOUNTABILITY; preferences; achievement; education; CHOICE; IMPACT; INVESTMENT; allocation; ECONOMICS

摘要

We study the interaction between family and school inputs by identifying the causal impact of information about school quality on parental time investment into children. Inspection ratings provide news that shifts parental beliefs about school quality, and hence investment into children. We study this using household panel data from England, linked to administrative records on school inspection ratings. We find that parents receiving good news over school quality significantly decrease time investment into their children. We provide insights on the distributional and test score impacts of the nationwide inspections regime, through multiple margins of endogenous response of parents and children.