What do parents value in education?
Subtitle: and empirical investigation of parents' revealed preferences for teachers
By: Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren.
Contributors: Lefgren, Lars.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11494; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11494.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Education, Elementary.; Parents -- Attitudes.; School children -- Attitudes.; Educational surveys.
Description: "This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes the number of parent requests for individual elementary school teachers along with information on teacher attributes including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable.  We find that, on average, parents strongly prefer teachers that principals describe as good at promoting student satisfaction and place relatively less value on a teacher's ability to raise standardized math or reading achievement.  These aggregate effects, however, mask striking differences across family demographics.  Families in higher poverty schools strongly value student achievement and are essentially indifferent to the principal's report of a teacher's ability to promote student satisfaction.  The results are reversed for families in higher-income schools"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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