Cycling for Education? Heterogeneous Preferences for Academic Tracks at Secondary School
利用荷兰独特数据，估计拥堵效应下的离散选择需求模型，发现高学历父母愿让孩子通勤更远以进入直通大学的学术轨道，这种偏好差异解释了不同社会经济地位学生入学差距的一半以上。
Using a unique data set from the Netherlands, I estimate a discrete choice demand model under congestion effects to recover preferences for secondary school tracks between parents with different socioeconomic status (SES) but equally proficient children. I find that highly educated parents are willing to let their offspring commute longer distances to attend tracks that grant direct admission to university. Valuation heterogeneity for such options explains more than half of the observed enrollment gap between students from different SES divides. These results suggest that low-SES children sort into academic tracks with lower economic prospects, even in schooling systems with negligible choice restrictions.