英文文献:Daycare Choice and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from a Randomized Survey-日托选择与种族多样性:来自随机调查的证据
英文文献作者:Mongoljin Batsaikhan,Mette G?rtz,John Kennes,Ran Sun Lyng,Daniel Monte,Norovsambuu Tumennasan
英文文献摘要:
We study parental daycare choice using a randomized online survey of parents in Copenhagen. The survey respondents were asked to choose between two daycares — structured vs. free-play. In describing these hypothetical choices, the survey used testimonials from (fictive) parents whose child allegedly attended the institution, and we randomized the names of the testifying parents across the sample so that some had typical Danes names, while other names were associated with ethnic minorities. Our main findings point towards discrimination against ethnic minorities. This finding is most pronounced among parents who prefer the structured institution. Adding information about the profession of the testifiers did not significantly alter signs of lower preferences for daycares with ethnic minority names, (cautiously) suggesting that this discrimination is taste-based rather than statistical. Finally, we asked the respondents to report a willingness to travel a further distance to get to their preferred daycare (structured or free-play, respectively). Our results show that willingness to travel to the preferred daycare is higher for parents who prefer the structured daycare when there was an ethnic minority name associated with the free-play daycare.
我们通过对哥本哈根的父母进行随机在线调查来研究父母选择日托所。调查对象被要求在两所日托所中做出选择——有结构的日托所和自由玩耍的日托所。在描述这些假设的选择时,调查使用了据称孩子在该机构上学的(虚构的)父母的证明,我们在样本中随机列出了作证的父母的名字,这样,一些人的名字是典型的丹麦名字,而其他一些人的名字则与少数民族有关。我们的主要发现指向了对少数民族的歧视。这一发现在偏爱结构化学校的家长中最为明显。增加证明人的职业信息并没有显著改变对少数民族托儿所较低的偏好,(谨慎地)表明这种歧视是基于口味而非统计数据。最后,我们让受访者报告愿意走更远的距离去他们喜欢的日托所(分别是有结构的日托所或自由玩耍的日托所)。我们的结果显示,当有一个少数民族名字与自由游戏日托联系在一起时,喜欢结构化日托的父母更愿意去他们喜欢的日托所。