Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools

Ewing, Eve L.

doi:10.17763/0017-8055.85.2.279

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“…Given the coupling of residential location and school attendance-along with marked disparities between schools-it is not surprising that educational considerations loom large in families' residential decision-making (Lareau and Goyette 2014). Parents often choose to move to a locale specifically (or at least in part) to reside within the attendance area of a desirable school (Holme 2002;Kimelberg 2014;Lareau and Goyette 2014). Twenty-four percent of parents with school-age children report moving to their current neighborhood specifically for the schools (Grady and Bielick 2010:Table C-1).…”

Section: Schools Income Inequality and Housing Pricesmentioning

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“…Notwithstanding variation in how parents construct perceptions of "good schools," these perceptions matter insofar as they play a consequential roll in residential outcomes at both the micro and macro levels (Holme 2002;Kimelberg 2014;Goyette et al 2014;Lareau and Goyette 2014). For instance, Owens (2016) points out that increases in residential income segregation since 1990 are driven solely by families with children, a fact that she suggests is attributable to increasing competition for desirable schools (but see Logan et al 2018).…”

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“…The typically cited case is in public schools, which are accessed through the housing market and whose quality is a function of residential location. The fact that school attendance is coupled with neighborhood location makes residential choices a linchpin in parents' efforts to reproduce or advance the social class positions of their children (Lareau and Goyette 2014).…”

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“…The U.S. public education system is marked by a high degree of inequality in resources and outcomes across schools, both between and within districts (Corcoran and Evans 2008;Logan, Minca, and Adar 2012). Despite the growth of various school-choice programs, attendance during the 2000s remained highly coupled with residential location (Lareau and Goyette 2014). In 2007, 82 percent of public-school students attended assigned neighborhood catchment schools, a decline of only 2 percent from 1996 (Grady and Bielick 2010).…”

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“…In addressing these questions, our project contributes to several social science literatures. Recent sociological research suggests that growing disparities between school districts have heightened the salience of perceived school quality in residential decision-making (Rivera and Lamont 2012;Goyette, Iceland, and Weininger 2014;Lareau and Goyette 2014;Weininger 2014;Owens 2016). We build on this line of research by modeling residential moves across school attendance areas, linking the schools-residence nexus to wider patterns of economic inequality, and considering the consequences of competition for schools on families' housing expenditure burdens.…”

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Buying In: Positional Competition, Schools, Income Inequality, and Housing Consumption

Goldstein¹,

Hastings²

2019

SocScience

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Social scientists have suggested that a key sociobehavioral consequence of rising inequality is intensifying market competition for advantageous positions in the opportunity structure, such as residences that afford access to high-quality public schools. We assess empirical implications of inequality-fueled positional competition theories (PCTs) by analyzing the relationships between metropolitan income inequality, households' efforts to secure residential positions in desirable school districts, and housing consumption behavior. We assemble a unique data set, which contains longitudinal information on household finances, residences, and geographic locations from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics; information on the quality of the school attendance areas in which these households reside; and information about the local real estate market. We find that greater inequality is associated with steeper housing price premia for residences in desirable areas, more pronounced social class sorting on school quality when relocating, and greater salience of schools relative to other housing amenities in families' housing expenditure functions. Families in high-inequality regions exhibit modestly greater willingness to pay more (relative to their own incomes) for a given improvement in school desirability. The analysis brings important empirical nuance to oft-invoked but untested theories about positional competition as a mechanism by which inequality affects behaviors, consumption, and markets.

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Buying In: Positional Competition, Schools, Income Inequality, and Housing Consumption

Goldstein¹,

Hastings²

2019

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How schools affect neighbourhoods: a conceptual framework for the multiple roles of public schools

Rönnberg,

Bernelius,

Ramos Lobato

2024

Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy

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Mothering and the Racialised Production of School and Property Value in New York City

Kromidas

2021

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This article explores middle-class mothers' labours associated with relocating for a "good school" in NYC as they navigated the material and ideological structures of scarcity related to its highly unequal school system. Based on ethnographic research with a diverse group of women in a middle-class area, I document the multiple ongoing labours associated with this "choice", and trace how the neoliberal education complex (that includes testing and real estate industries, and school rating websites) compels women to perform them. Through the lenses of Marxist feminism and racial capitalism, I demonstrate how these labours produce school and property value that reinscribe race onto space. While middle-class women are disciplined and their labours coerced, their labours are routed to dispossess working-class communities of colour, and reproduce the racial hierarchy of human-ness on which capital depends. This article underscores the role of gender and race-making in middle-class reproduction, and their linkage to elite accumulation and working-class dispossession.

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Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Buying In: Positional Competition, Schools, Income Inequality, and Housing Consumption

Buying In: Positional Competition, Schools, Income Inequality, and Housing Consumption

How schools affect neighbourhoods: a conceptual framework for the multiple roles of public schools

Mothering and the Racialised Production of School and Property Value in New York City

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