TY  - RPRT
CY  - Toulouse
ID  - publications25894
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/32579
A1  - Belzil, Christian
A1  - Poinas, François
Y1  - 2018/03//
N2  - We estimate a structural model of education choices in which individuals choose between a professional (or technical) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98 ). The average per-period utility of attending general high school (about 10,000 euros per year) is 20% higher than that of professional high school (about 8000 euros per year). About 64% of total higher education enrollments are explained by this differential. At the same time, professional high school graduates would earn 5% to 6% more than general high school graduates if they both entered the labor market around age 18. The return to post-high school general education is highly convex (as in the US) and is reaped mostly toward the end of the higher education curriculum. Public policies targeting an increase in professional high school enrollments of 10 percentage points would require a subsidy of 300 euros pervyear of professional high school.
PB  - TSE Working Paper
T3  - TSE Working Paper
KW  - Education choices
KW  - returns to schooling
KW  - professional education
KW  - structural model
M1  - working_paper
TI  - Estimating a Model of Qualitative and Quantitative Education Choices in France
AV  - public
EP  - 43
ER  -