An examination of inter-district public school transfers in Wisconsin |
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| Authors: | David M Welsch Bambi Statz Mark Skidmore |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Carlson Hall 4048, Whitewater, WI 53190, United States;2. Department of Information Technology and Business Education, College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Carlson Hall 4016, Whitewater, WI 53190, United States;3. Michigan State University, 208 Agriculture Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States;1. Brunel University, London, UK;2. University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy;1. Department of Chemistry, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 136119, India;2. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Laboratorio di Chimica Bioinorganica, Rm 188, and Neurofarba Department, Sezione di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Via U. Schiff 6, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy;1. Food, Drugs and Chemical Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India;2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India;3. Developmental Toxicology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India;4. Pathology Laboratory, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India |
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| Abstract: | Using data for all Wisconsin school districts over the 2003/04 through 2006/07 school years, we evaluate the state of Wisconsin's Open Enrollment (inter-district transfer) program to determine which school district characteristics influence parental transfer decisions. To our knowledge, this is the first study of school choice in a public school setting that evaluates transfer decisions controlling for district characteristics from which the students are transferring. The main result of our research indicates that parents of transfer students reside in districts with high property values but low taxes, and they choose to send their children to higher spending school districts. Other key findings are that parents send their children to districts with lower percentages of minorities, and are more likely to transfer from districts with fewer extracurricular opportunities. |
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