Daycare Choice and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
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Daycare Choice and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from a Randomized Survey. / Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Gørtz, Mette; Kennes, John; Lyng, Ran Sun; Monte, Daniel; Tumennasan, Norovsambuu.
2019.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Daycare Choice and Ethnic Diversity
T2 - Evidence from a Randomized Survey
AU - Batsaikhan, Mongoljin
AU - Gørtz, Mette
AU - Kennes, John
AU - Lyng, Ran Sun
AU - Monte, Daniel
AU - Tumennasan, Norovsambuu
PY - 2019/12/17
Y1 - 2019/12/17
N2 - Discrimination among individuals is very well documented in the literature, but much less is known about how discrimination is passed down through generations. By designing and conducting a randomized survey to study daycare choices and ethnic diversity, we provide evidence of how biases against ethnic minorities affect parental choices of early childhood education. We asked parents in Copenhagen to choose between two daycares — structured vs. free-play. Each daycare had testimonials from (fictive) parents whose child allegedly attended the daycare, and the survey randomized the names of the testifying parents across the sample. Another novelty of our study is that we are able to capture how discriminatory attitudes towards ethnic minorities interact with preferences for specific teaching styles. In our results we find bias against ethnic minorities among parents who prefer the structured daycare. We validate our results through data on willingness to travel to the preferred daycare, which is higher for parents who prefer the structured daycare when there was an ethnic minority name associated with the free-play daycare.
AB - Discrimination among individuals is very well documented in the literature, but much less is known about how discrimination is passed down through generations. By designing and conducting a randomized survey to study daycare choices and ethnic diversity, we provide evidence of how biases against ethnic minorities affect parental choices of early childhood education. We asked parents in Copenhagen to choose between two daycares — structured vs. free-play. Each daycare had testimonials from (fictive) parents whose child allegedly attended the daycare, and the survey randomized the names of the testifying parents across the sample. Another novelty of our study is that we are able to capture how discriminatory attitudes towards ethnic minorities interact with preferences for specific teaching styles. In our results we find bias against ethnic minorities among parents who prefer the structured daycare. We validate our results through data on willingness to travel to the preferred daycare, which is higher for parents who prefer the structured daycare when there was an ethnic minority name associated with the free-play daycare.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - school choice
KW - discrimination and intergenerational transmission
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3507520
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3507520
M3 - Working paper
T3 - CEBI Working Paper Series
BT - Daycare Choice and Ethnic Diversity
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