School choice in Latin America: Does migration matter?

Amberes

Congreso; XI Arnodshain Seminar; 2013

Over the second half of the twentieth century, the education systems in Latin America have faced a sharp increase in the number of privately run schools and of the quantity of students enrolled in them. Additionally, other phenomenon that has become very important in the globalized world is migration and its repercussion on education. The aim of this paper is to analyze the main factors that influence parent?s choice about sending their children to a privately run school in Latin America with special attention to the migrant status of students. Discrete choice models were estimated using data for the eight Latin American countries surveyed in PISA 2009 and the analyses were run for the region as a whole and for each country independently. It was found that migrant status does not influence school choice in Latin America as a whole, but it has different effects in each of the Latin American countries.