Abstract:

In this study a questionnaire was conducted with 288 parents who live in city center of Rize and have children either in a public or private primary school According to the data gathered by using Logit and Probit model factors influencing parents’ choice of private or public primary school were tried to be determined Among many descriptive variables it was determined that the most important variables were family’s total monthly income the portion of the income that is spent for the child in school father’s age father’s occupation mother’s occupation and mother’s salary Keywords: Education School Choice Logit Model Probit Model

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