Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Autor/inn/en	Spieß, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / Projektgruppe Das Sozio-Ökonomische Panel
Titel	Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Determiniert in Deutschland die Distanz zu einer Universität die Aufnahme eines Studiums?
Quelle	Berlin: German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (2008), 30 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research. 118
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Wohnort; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Kosten; Studienwahl; Studienort; Studienortwahl; Hochschule; Regionaler Faktor; Student; Studentin; Studienanfänger; Deutschland
Abstract	"We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the nearest university, the lower the participation in higher education. We analyse this hypothesis by combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) with a database from the German Rectors' Conference on university postal codes. Based on a discrete time hazard rate model we show that distance to the next university at the time of completing high school significantly affects the decision to enrol in tertiary education. Controlling for many other socio-economic and regional variables, we find that 1 kilometre distance decreases the probability to enrol in higher education by 0.2 - 0.3 percentage points." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/2