保護者が求める小中学校 : 良い義務教育学校への支払い意欲

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ompulsory schooling at the elementary and lower-secondary levels in Japan is largely provided for free by the municipal authorities in relatively strict school district systems. Therefore, the compulsory schools have not faced competitive markets, and the parents (i.e., consumers of the educational services) have not had sufficient opportunities to express their wishes. To look into such parents' latent demands, viz. how much they would pay for good schooling, we conducted a web-based national survey and, using the contingent valuationmethod (CVM), elicited parents' willingness to pay (WTP) for good schooling.Using double-bounded dichotomous choice analysis, we estimated parents' price premium for "good teachers," "good peers," and the reasons for their premium. The results revealed that a median parent would like to pay a little more than 240 thousand yen per year to a school with good teachers or good peers. If they were not concerned with money, several types of parents would like to pay more for compulsory schooling. These are (a) those who actually have trouble in their children's schools, (b) those who are altruistic, and (c) those who think private schools are differentiated from public schools.
2012-03-05