The Effects of Accessibility to University Education on Enrollment Decisions, Geographical Mobility, and Social Recruitment

Kent Eliasson ()
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Kent Eliasson: National Institute for Working Life, Postal: SE-831 40 Östersund, Sweden

No 690, Umeå Economic Studies from Umeå University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper focuses on how accessibility to higher education affects university enrollment decisions in Sweden. The analysis refers to the autumn semester of 1996 and is based on approximately 835,000 individuals aged 1929. The empirical results show that the probability of enrollment increases with accessibility to university education. The findings also reveal that accessibility adds to the likelihood of enrollment within the region of residence. Both these results are robust with regard to different specifications of accessibility. Moreover the empirical results indicate that the enrollment decisions of individuals with a less privileged background are more sensitive to accessibility to university education than those of individuals from a more advantageous background. The influence of accessibility on enrollment decreases significantly with individual ability, parental education, and parental earnings.

Keywords: University enrollment; accessibility; geographical mobility; social recruitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 I21 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-geo and nep-ure
Date: 2006-09-11
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