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Comments on Does Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior

Comments on Does Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior. Prepared by Robert Bifulco For conference on Competition and Subnational Governments Knoxville, Tennessee April 26, 2014. The effects of market-based reforms are likely to depend on:.

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Comments on Does Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior

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  1. Comments on Does Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior Prepared by Robert Bifulco For conference on Competition and Subnational Governments Knoxville, Tennessee April 26, 2014

  2. The effects of market-based reforms are likely to depend on: • the information about schools that families can access • how they use that information, and • how that information influences the choices they make.

  3. Exemplary Studies • Schneider & Buckley (EEPA 2002) • Hastings & Weinstein (QJE 2008) • Bell (Peabody 2009)

  4. Does Choice Increase Information? • combines novel data from Great Schools, Inc. with extensive efforts to assemble information on state and local area school choice policies • Finds that search activity on the Great Schools, Inc. website increased more in areas that saw expansions of school choice policies • Key insight: the school choice environment itself can affect the amount of information about schools that parents seek out.

  5. Limitations No insight into: • which types of families tend to increase their search activity the most • what type of information parents tend to seek out • whether the type of information sought out differs across families from different social and educational backgrounds. • how the increased activity on the Great Schools, Inc. website influences the school choices made by different types of families.

  6. Future research will require innovative designs that: • focus on discrete and substantial changes in the school choice environment • collect information on the specific changes in schooling options experienced by different sets of families • observe what information is sought, what information is obtained, how that information is used, and how it influences choices • identify similarities and differences in access to and use of information across families from different socioeconomic backgrounds

  7. Future research will require innovative designs that: • evaluate the effects of specific policy changes designed to influence the type of information parents can access and how they can access it • pay attention to how schools and other agencies respond to changes in the school choice environment

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