Jerrim, John;
Prieto-Latorre, Claudia;
Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro;
Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar David;
(2023)
Do school preferences differ between mothers and fathers? International evidence from PISA.
Oxford Review of Education
pp. 1-18.
10.1080/03054985.2023.2244880.
(In press).
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Abstract
A sizeable literature – spanning education, sociology and economics – has investigated the issue of parental school preferences and school choice. A notable gap in the existing evidence base is an exploration of how such preferences differ between mothers and fathers. We present new cross-national findings on this matter, drawing on survey data collected from more than 300,000 parents across 25 countries. Our findings suggest that mothers rate the school environment – whether the school is safe and has a pleasant atmosphere – to be more important than fathers. Differences are also observed with respect to the school’s reputation and whether it has a high level of achievement. Clearer evidence of such differences emerges for industrialised Western nations than for countries that are not members of the OECD. In most countries, mothers’ and fathers’ preferences do not vary substantially between sons and daughters.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Do school preferences differ between mothers and fathers? International evidence from PISA |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03054985.2023.2244880 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2244880 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | PISA; school choice; school preferences; gender differences |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181408 |
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