School supply constraints in track choices: A French study using high school openings

Manon Garrouste and Meryam Zaiem

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Abstract: We study the effect of opening a new high school on individual schooling decisions at the end of lower secondary education. The working sample covers all ninth graders between 2007–2008 and 2012–2013 in France. The two-way fixed-effect estimation strategy uses variation in time and space to estimate the causal effect of an increase in school supply. Opening a new high school significantly increases the probability of pupils from neighboring middle schools continuing in higher secondary education. The effect is exclusively due to new high schools proposing a vocational track. Furthermore, the effect is mainly driven by low-achieving students.

Keywords: Education; Track choice; School openings; Difference-in-differences; Two-way fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10
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Published in Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, pp.102041. ⟨10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.102041⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.102041

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