I Want You to Teach My Children: The Effect of Teacher Quality on Parental School Choice in the Mexican State of Zacatecas

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Abstract: The growing literature about parental school choice tries to look at determinants of parental school choice, such as distance to household, peer effects, infrastructure, and tuition. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating the role of teachers. In particular, it discusses how an educational reform in Mexico that changed the way teachers are hired affects parental school choice. I show descriptive evidence that teachers hired after the reform have significantly better grades on a standardized exam. Using the percentage of teachers hired through the merit-based system at schools in the northern state of Zacatecas, I estimate a conditional logit model to determine the impact of this new merit-based hiring system on parental school choice. In order to address identification concerns, I use a simulated instrumental variable: teacher vacancies per school. I find no evidence of the chance of parents choosing a school changing if the percentage of teachers hired through the merit-based system increases.

Type of resource	text
Date created	August 2020

Author	Aguilar Llanes, Salome

Subject	Parental school choice
Subject	teacher quality
Subject	demand for schools
Subject	Mexico
Subject	Stanford Graduate School of Education International Education Policy Analysis
Genre	Thesis

Related item	Title Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/fy176mk5446

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