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The Pandemic’s Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools

NBER Working Paper Series, 2021-09

Copyright National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Sep 2021 ;ISSN: 0898-2937 ;DOI: 10.3386/w29262

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  • Title:
    The Pandemic’s Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools
  • Author: Stange, Kevin M ; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew ; Musaddiq, Tareena ; Goodman, Joshua
  • Subjects: Children ; COVID-19 ; Economics of Education ; Enrollments ; Home education ; Pandemics ; Private schools ; Public Economics ; Public schools
  • Is Part Of: NBER Working Paper Series, 2021-09
  • Description: The Covid-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. We study changes in families’ choices of school sector using longitudinal student-level administrative data from Michigan and nationally representative data from the Census Household Pulse Survey. Public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020, with 3 percent of Michigan students and 10 percent of kindergartners using other options. Most of this came from homeschooling rates jumping substantially among families with children in elementary school. Consistent with heterogeneous parental preferences for instructional mode, homeschooling increased more where schools provided in-person instruction while private schooling increased more where instruction was remote. Kindergarten declines were highest among low income and Black families while declines in other grades were highest among higher income and White families, highlighting important heterogeneity by students’ existing attachment to public schools. Our results shed light on how families make schooling decisions and imply potential longer-run disruptions to public schools in the form of decreased enrollment and changed composition of the student body.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0898-2937
    DOI: 10.3386/w29262
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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