ABSTRACT

Access to Britain’s highly-resourced private schools matters because of concerns surrounding social mobility. Using the UK Family Resources Survey, we document a high and mostly stable income concentration of private school access since 1997. Nevertheless, some low-income participation persists. Bursaries are income-progressive but cannot account for this participation. Housing wealth is, however, found to be greater for private school participants. We estimate that a 10 per cent rise of family income and home value raises private school participation by 0.9 points, respectively. Neither effect changes over time. The income effect, however, falls sharply outside the top income decile.

摘要

由于对社会流动性的担忧，进入英国资源丰富的私立学校至关重要。使用英国家庭资源调查，我们记录了自1997年以来私立学校入学率一直很高且基本稳定的趋势。尽管如此，仍有一些低收入人士参与。助学金是收入递增的，但不能解释这种参与。然而，发现私立学校参与者的住房财富更大。我们估计，家庭收入和房屋价值增加10％，可使私立学校的参与率分别提高0.9个百分点。两种效果都不会随时间变化。但是，收入影响在最高收入十分位之外急剧下降。