School choice y segregación educativa en Uruguay

Matías Faggetti ()

No 424, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: This document studies the factors that contribute to segregation in basic secondary education in Uruguay (specifically between traditional high schools (“liceos”) and technical education (“UTU”)). Based on data from the new student assignment system (2019), it is shown that the relative participation of vulnerable students in “UTU” doubles or even triples the number of vulnerable students in “liceos”. Through analysis of counterfactual scenarios, I first show that residential segregation does not fully explain educational segregation. This phenomenon appears to be mediated by student preferences or other characteristics than distance. Secondly, Bayesian methods are used to estimate students' cardinal preferences It is found that the utility non-vulnerable students have from attending “liceos” is higher than from attending to “UTU”. For vulnerable students, this variable is not relevant or they may even prefer attending to “UTU”. Therefore, the use of the vulnerability index as the priority for schools and the differential component in the preferences of vulnerable and non-vulnerable students are contributing to the segregation of the system.

Keywords: School choice; distance to schools; educational segregation; preference estimation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C78 I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2024-05
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