Choosing College in the 2000s: An Updated Analysis Using the Conditional Logistic Choice Model

Skinner, Benjamin T.

doi:10.1007/s11162-018-9507-1

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“…Other scholars ignore state lines, but instead think about nearby colleges purely in terms of distance-based measures, and find that, in general, the closer a college is to a student's home, the more likely the student is to enroll in that college (Long 2004;Niu and Tienda 2007;Skinner 2018). The link between distance and college attendance is strong enough that many scholars use the distance to a student's nearest college to predict whether they attend college at all (e.g., Card 1995;Rouse 1995).…”

Section: Preference For Proximitymentioning

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“…Although there are many reasons for these disparities in college enrollment choices, one leading factor may be students' tendency to enroll in a college close to home (Long 2004;Niu and Tienda 2007;Rouse 1995;Turley 2009;Skinner 2018). The preference to remain close to home may produce uneven outcomes, because some geographic areas are not lucky enough to play host to a choice of public two-year colleges, let alone a four-year university (Hillman 2016).…”

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Out of the Education Desert: How Limited Local College Options are Associated with Inequity in Postsecondary Opportunities

2018

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The United States has a stratified hierarchy of colleges and universities. The consequences of this stratification include large disparities in the returns to higher education between the levels of postsecondary institutions, and gaps by race and income in terms of where students enroll that, together, have the potential to reproduce longstanding social inequality. We study one potential cause associated with enrollment disparities, the uneven geographic distribution of colleges around the United States. Specifically, we examine the college application and enrollment decisions of students who live in education deserts—geographic areas where students either do not have access to a broad-access, public college option (access deserts), or where they do not have access to a college that is academically matched to their academic credentials (match deserts). We find that the students in access deserts are more likely to apply to and enroll in colleges farther away from home than the students who have more readily available college options. In contrast, students in match deserts are less likely to apply to and enroll in academically-matched institutions. We discuss the equity implications of these findings and make recommendations for policy and future research.

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Section: Preference For Proximitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Out of the Education Desert: How Limited Local College Options are Associated with Inequity in Postsecondary Opportunities

2018

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“…The programme structure follows largely the Anglo-American higher education realm. Acknowledging that there remains a notable difference between the US and the German higher education system, a gradually declining sensitivity of college choice regarding tuition fees in the US (Long 2004;Skinner 2019) and a continuously advanced internationalisation of the German higher education landscape imply that some findings could be generalised.…”

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“…Tuition costs affected the choice of a specific college to a lesser extent for younger cohorts, though individuals from low income backgrounds still displayed a comparable sensitivity. This trend of relatively lower importance of tuition costs continued in the 2000s (Skinner 2019), whereas the importance of distance did not decline over time. The sensitivity of individuals from economically less favoured households was also confirmed by Avery and Hoxby (2004) investigating the sensitivity of college choice with respect to financial aid.…”

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How Personality Shapes Study Location Choices

Weisser

2019

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In this paper I investigate undergraduate students' discrete location choices in presence of a plethora of potential destinations and psychic costs. I demonstrate how enrolment into institutions of tertiary education is influenced by personality and social preferences. More importantly, these individual traits are found to affect the valuation of location-specific conditions in alternative study locations. Eventually, the relevance of location attributes, such as urban or labour market characteristics, varies substantially with respect to distance and individuals' personality. This has direct implications for student recruitment, since prospective students display distinct geographic sorting patterns along these traits: students featuring higher levels of patience integrate post-graduation opportunities into their decision-making. As a consequence, institutions in economically less prosperous regions might attract a specific subset of the overall student population, which might also have repercussions on student performance.

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“…Other proxies for institutional quality that were used in empirical studies include selectivity, rejection rate, retention rate, tuition fees, faculty salary and student-to-faculty ratio (Eide et al 1998;Smith 2004, 2006;Long 2010). 8 Another line of research focused on how students aspiring to post-secondary education develop a choice set, decide where to apply, and, conditional on admission, make their enrolment decisions (Zemsky and Oedel 1983;Hearn 1984;Hossler et al 1989;Paulsen 1990;McDonough 1997;Hossler et al 1999;Shamsuddin 2016;Skinner 2018). An important insight from these studies is that better students and those from high socio-economic status families apply to many schools, more selective schools, and more costly schools.…”

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Choosing the Future: Economic Preferences for Higher Education Using Discrete Choice Experiment Method

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This study illustrates how respondents' stated choices (the discrete choice experiment method) combined with the random utility framework can be used to model preferences for higher education. The flexibility offered by stated preference data circumvents limitations of other approaches, and allows quantifying young people' preferences for selected attributes of higher education programs that are typically highly correlated in revealed preference data. The empirical study presented here is based on a survey of 20,000 Polish respondents aged 18-30, who stated their preferences for higher education programs in carefully prepared hypothetical choice situations. The attributes considered include tuition fee, expected salary after graduation, quality of institution, interest in the field of study, distance from home, and mode of study. Using random parameters and latent class mixed multinomial logit models, young peoples' preferences are formally described, and the financial trade-offs they are willing to make are identified (willingness to pay for specific attribute levels in terms of increased tuition fees or expected salary after graduation). Accounting for respondents' observed and unobserved preference heterogeneity addresses a few research questions related to, for example, distinct preferences of students with parents who never attained tertiary education, students from lower socioeconomic groups, or students of a particular gender. Overall, the usefulness of stated preference methods as a tool for exploring economic preferences is demonstrated, allowing for better understanding the determinants of choices, forecasting, and designing the services offered by higher education institutions in an optimal way.

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Choosing College in the 2000s: An Updated Analysis Using the Conditional Logistic Choice Model

Cited by 32 publications

References 44 publications

Out of the Education Desert: How Limited Local College Options are Associated with Inequity in Postsecondary Opportunities

Out of the Education Desert: How Limited Local College Options are Associated with Inequity in Postsecondary Opportunities

How Personality Shapes Study Location Choices

Choosing the Future: Economic Preferences for Higher Education Using Discrete Choice Experiment Method

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