Arbeitspapier

Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling

We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the probability that a school board proceeds to election, indicating parental willingness to serve as a school trustee. Similarly, we examine whether state-owned social housing rates affect these outcomes. We compile results initially without controlling for other factors, and then controlling for a wide range of other characteristics, to test the robustness of simple observed associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association), but a (robust) positive impact of both homeownership and state-ownership rates on the probability that a school holds an election.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6168

Classification
Wirtschaft
Education: Government Policy
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Subject
homeownership
school elections
parental voice
social capital
Wohneigentum
Bürgerbeteiligung
Eltern
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Social Capital
Neuseeland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Grimes, Arthur
Stillman, Steven
Young, Chris
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201102990
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Grimes, Arthur
  • Stillman, Steven
  • Young, Chris
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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