Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6168

Classification and Topics

• 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

Contributors, Places and Time

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

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58712
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201102990
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET