| Title: |
Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden. |
| Authors: |
Andersson, Fredrik W1 (AUTHOR), Mutgan, Selcan2 (AUTHOR), Norgren, Axel2 (AUTHOR), Wennberg, Karl2,3 (AUTHOR) karl.wennberg@hhs.se |
| Source: |
Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.). Feb2025, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p367-386. 20p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Housing market, School choice, Residential mobility, School admission, School enrollment, School children |
| Abstract (English): |
Residential choices and school choices are intimately connected in school systems where school admission relies on proximity rules. In countries with universal school choice systems, however, it remains an open question whether families' residential mobility is tied to the choice of their children's school, and with what consequences. Using administrative data on all children approaching primary-school age in Sweden, we study to what extent families' financial and socio-economic background affects mobility between neighbourhoods and the characteristics of schools chosen by moving families. Our findings show that families do utilise the housing market as an instrument for school choice over the year preceding their firstborn child starting school. However, while families who move do 'climb the social ladder' by moving to neighbourhoods with more households of higher socio-economic status, their chosen schools do not appear to be of higher academic quality compared to those their children would otherwise have attended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Chinese): |
在入学遵循就近原则的学校体系中，居住选择和择校密切相关。然而，在实行全民择校制度的国家，家庭居住流动性是否与子女的择校有关，以及会产生什么后果，仍是一个悬而未决的问题。我们利用瑞典所有接近小学入学年龄儿童的行政管理数据，研究家庭的财务和社会经济背景在多大程度上影响街区之间的流动以及流动家庭选择的学校的特征。我们的研究结果表明，在第一个孩子开始上学之前的一年里，一些家庭确实会利用住房市场作为择校的工具。然而，虽然搬迁到拥有更多社会经济地位较高的家庭的社区确实有可能实现社会阶层跃升，但这类搬迁家庭选择的学校的学术质量似乎并不比他们的孩子原本会就读的学校更高。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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