Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling

Arthur Grimes, Steven Stillman () and Chris Young ()
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Steven Stillman: Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
Chris Young: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust

No 6168, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: homeownership; school elections; parental voice; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 R23 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2011-11
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