TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Meschi, Elena
AU  - Swaffield, Joanna K.
AU  - Vignoles, Anna
        TI  - The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions
        PY  - 2011/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6143
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6143
        AB  - This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with. Our findings show that, on average, the key drivers of the schooling decision are pupil educational attainment and parental aspirations rather than local labour market conditions. However, there is some evidence that higher local unemployment rates encourage males to invest in education, and that interactions with educational attainment suggest local labour market conditions impact heterogeneously across the pupil population.
        KW  - post-compulsory education
KW  - local labour markets
KW  - parental aspirations
KW  - educational attainment
KW  - nested logit
        ER  -