Public housing, school segregation, and children’s education: Evidence from Hong Kong

Public housing, school segregation, and children’s education: Evidence from Hong Kong

• Yi, Junjian National University of Singapore
• Chou, Kee Lee The Education University of Hong Kong
• Yung, Linda The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Zhang, Junsen The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Frontiers of Economics in China, 10(3), 414-448, 2015

Gaodeng Jiaoyu Chubanshe

2015

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QB Pre-school Education, Child Caring Facilities, Maternal & Infantile Health Facilities

Public Housing Schooling Segregation School Attendance

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

Evidence in the literature shows that public-housing residents move less frequently than others. This tendency may restrict school choice for children from public-housing families and lead to school segregation and lower educational outcomes for those children. Our empirical findings from Hong Kong show three strands of evidence that support this hypothesis. (1) Children from public-housing families are more likely to drop out of school after compulsory education. The result is robust after controlling for family background and a series of parental characteristics. (2) Public-housing families with school-age children are less likely to move than their private-housing counterparts. (3) Children from public-housing families are more likely to study in local community schools, which are located on the outskirts of Hong Kong and are of lower education quality. These findings have important policy implications for the public-housing programs such as those which have been implemented in Mainland China since 2011. Copyright © 2015 Brill.

• English

Journal Articles

• 16733444

• 10.3868/s060-004-015-0018-7

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2019-02-12