RT Journal Article
T1 Do school preferences differ between mothers and fathers? International evidence from PISA
A1 Jerrim, John
A1 Prieto-Latorre, Claudia
A1 Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Educación
AB A sizeable literature – spanning education, sociology and economics – has investigated the issue of parental school preferences and school choice. A notable gap in the existing evidence base is an exploration of how such preferences differ between mothers and fathers. We present new cross-national findings on this matter, drawing on survey data collected from more than 300,000 parents across 25 countries. Our findings suggest that mothers rate the school environment – whether the school is safe and has a pleasant atmosphere – to be more important than fathers. Differences are also observed with respect to the school’s reputation and whether it has a high level of achievement. Clearer evidence of such differences emerges for industrialised Western nations than for countries that are not members of the OECD. In most countries, mothers’ and fathers’ preferences do not vary substantially between sons and daughters.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33985
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33985
LA eng
NO Jerrim, J., Prieto-Latorre, C., Lopez-Agudo, L. A., & Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O. D. (2023). Do school preferences differ between mothers and fathers? International evidence from PISA. Oxford Review of Education, 50(4), 499-516.
NO This work has been partly supported by FEDER funding (under Research Project PY20-00228-R); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (under Research Project PID2020-119471RB-I00); by the Andalusian Regional Government (SEJ-645) and the Universidad de Málaga under Research Project B1-2022_23.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026