Effects of institutional attributes on enrollment choice: Implications for postsecondary vocational education

This paper examines the postsecondary enrollment decision of individual high school graduates with particular focus on the effects of institutional cost and proximity. Using data from the High School and Beyond Survey of 1980 high school seniors, a multinomial logit model of enrollment probability i...

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Published inEconomics of education review Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 335 - 350
Main Author Farley Ordovensky, J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass., etc Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 1995
Elsevier
Pergamon Press
SeriesEconomics of Education Review
Subjects
Academic Education
College Choice
Costs
Educational Economics
Elasticity of Demand
Enrollment Influences
High School and Beyond (NCES)
High School Graduates
Institutional Characteristics
JEL 121
Logit Analysis
Paying for College
Postsecondary Education
Proximity
Student Financial Aid
Vocational Education
JEL 121
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Summary:This paper examines the postsecondary enrollment decision of individual high school graduates with particular focus on the effects of institutional cost and proximity. Using data from the High School and Beyond Survey of 1980 high school seniors, a multinomial logit model of enrollment probability is estimated. The results are then used to calculate own and cross-alternative elasticities of enrollment probabilities with respect to changes in institutional cost and distance. Both trade school and two-year college vocational programs are explicitly included in the choice set in order to examine how institutional attributes might best be altered in an attempt to increase enrollments in vocational postsecondary training of students who would otherwise have chosen non-enrollment.
ISSN:0272-7757
1873-7382
DOI:10.1016/0272-7757(95)00013-A