Can public policy affect private school cream skimming?

David N. Figlio; Joe A. Stone

doi:10.1006/juec.2000.2189

Can public policy affect private school cream skimming?

David N. Figlio^*, Joe A. Stone

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School of Education and Social Policy

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Abstract

We investigate how key school and community characteristics interact with the characteristics of individual students and families in determining the enrollment patterns in public and private schools. Using unique, nationally-representative, individual-level data, we find evidence that a number of factors plausibly influenced by public policy (e.g., school-district concentration, student-teacher ratios, and local violent crime rates) have powerful effects on the composition of public and private schools.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	240-266
Number of pages	27
Journal	Journal of Urban Economics
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/juec.2000.2189
State	Published - 2001

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Urban Studies

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title = "Can public policy affect private school cream skimming?",

abstract = "We investigate how key school and community characteristics interact with the characteristics of individual students and families in determining the enrollment patterns in public and private schools. Using unique, nationally-representative, individual-level data, we find evidence that a number of factors plausibly influenced by public policy (e.g., school-district concentration, student-teacher ratios, and local violent crime rates) have powerful effects on the composition of public and private schools.",

author = "Figlio, {David N.} and Stone, {Joe A.}",

note = "Funding Information: 1Thanks to two anonymous referees, Dan Aaronson, Julian Betts, Jan Brueckner, Dennis Epple, Hamp Lankford, Rich Romano, Larry Singell, Jon Sonstelie, and seminar participants at several universities for helpful conversations on this topic. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation under grants SBR-9816629 (Figlio) and SBR-9810615 (Stone), and from the U.S. Department of Education. All errors are ours. 2As reported in Business Week, February 7, 2000, p. 76 2 .",

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