Does Accessibility to Higher Education Matter? Choice Behaviour of High School Graduates in the Netherlands

Carla Sá, Raymond Florax and Piet Rietveld

Spatial Economic Analysis, 2006, vol. 1, issue 2, 155-174

Abstract: Abstract This paper identifies pivotal factors behind individual decision making in the transition from high school to post-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data and accommodate two types of effects that have not received much attention in the literature. First, we analyse the impact of geographical accessibility of the higher education system. Second, we allow the individual observations to be correlated within schools, in effect accounting for localized social interactions. Our results confirm the paramount influence of the student's track record and talent. The results, however, also show that geographical proximity significantly increases the probability of high school leavers continuing their education at a university or professional college.

Keywords: High school graduates; higher education; social interaction; geographical accessibility; C25; I21; R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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