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100	1		_aHastings, Justine S. _929508
245	1	0	_aPreferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice / _cJustine S. Hastings, Richard Van Weelden, Jeffrey Weinstein.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2007.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w12995
500			_aMarch 2007.
520	3		_aThe incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior. There is growing empirical evidence that low-income parents place lower weights on academics when choosing schools, but there is little evidence as to why. We use a field experiment in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School district (CMS) to examine the degree to which information costs impact parental choices and their revealed preferences for academic achievement. We provided simplified information sheets on school average test scores or test scores coupled with estimated odds of admission to students in randomly selected schools along with their CMS school choice forms. We find that receiving simplified information leads to a significant increase in the average test score of the school chosen. This increase is equivalent to a doubling in the implicit preference for academic performance in a random utility model of school choice. Receiving information on odds of admission further increases the effect of simplified test score information on preferences for test scores among low-income families, but dampens the effect among higher-income families. Using within-family changes in choice behavior, we provide evidence that the estimated impact of simplified information is more consistent with lowered information costs than with suggestion or saliency.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aD8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI2 - Education and Research Institutions _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aL3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aVan Weelden, Richard.
700	1		_aWeinstein, Jeffrey.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w12995.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w12995
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12995
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