School choice in the Basque Country: Public, government-dependent and private schools with different languages of instruction

A Discrete Choice Experiment Application to School Choice

“…That is, Basque speaking families heavily favour the All Basque language model, but Spanish speaking families do not systematically choose the All Spanish model. This asymmetry corroborates the findings in Vega-Bayo and Mariel (2015) and is probably due to a mixture of several reasons: the sense of pride and cultural Indeed, if we check the results for the remaining language models, they coincide with the idea that Basque-speaking parents favour All Basque, whereas Spanish-speaking ones 56 ainhoa vega-bayo and petr mariel prefer other models, but not All Spanish. For example, the median value of willingness to pay of Spanish-speaking parents for a bilingual language model is 110€/month and 112€/ month for a trilingual one.…”

School Choice across Different Regions of Spain

“…A curious case of reduced segregation is the Basque Country, where the language of instruction moderates the effect of parents' education and family wealth on the probability of choosing a private school. This happens because Basque-speaking families, regardless of their education and wealth levels, choose to send their kids to schools that offer the Basque language model, which is common in public schools (Vega-Bayo and Mariel, 2015).…”

“…Furthermore, for the Basque Country, we consider as school type not only the public and private options as we do in the other four regions, but also the three different instruction language models offered (Spanish, Basque, and Mixed); which combined make up the six stratums differentiated in the PISA 2012 database: Public Basque, Public Spanish, Public Mixed, Private Basque, Private Spanish, Private Mixed. These six categories are in fact distinct from one another, and cannot be combined (Vega-Bayo and Mariel, 2015). Unfortunately, no such data is available for the other regions in which a second official language is spoken.…”

School competition and performance indicators: evidence from the creation of federal education institutions in Brazil

“…The availability of more schools increases the possibility of school choice and consequently generates competitive pressure from the market, which leads schools to seek better results (Becker, 1995;HOXBY, 2003). International literature on school choice indicates that it depends on factors such as: income, quality of school, safe, parental education and distance from the student's home to the educational institution (Burgess and Briggs, 2010;Chumacero et al, 2011;Dustan and Ngo, 2018;Hastings et al, 2006;HASTINGS and WEINSTEIN, 2007;Humble and Dixon, 2017;Koning and Van der Wiel, 2013;Mancebón-Torrubia and Ximénez-de-Embún, 2014;Nunes et al, 2015;Vega-Bayo and Mariel, 2015). In Brazil, Opice (2014), analyzing the choice of school in the state of São Paulo, found that the school quality is an important factor for the effect of student migration, being the best students who move.…”