1. Descriptive Analysis This study uses a subset of NELS students enrolled in urban schools. The primary reason why we focus on students at urban schools is that most private schools are located in those areas. 65.3 percent of 1,441 NELS individuals enrolled in private schools are present in municipal areas. 1 80.8 percent of Catholic school students reside in urban places. 2 Moreover, private ...

As the school choice options have evolved over recent years, it is important to have an understanding of what family and school factors are associated with enrollment decisions of households. In this paper, we use restricted-access data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), which allows us to identify household location from a nationally representative sample of individuals and to...