We study the effect of opening a new high school on individual schooling decisions at the end of lower secondary education. The working sample covers all ninth graders between 2007–2008 and 2012–2013 in France. The two-way fixed-effect estimation strategy uses variation in time and space to estimate the causal effect of an increase in school supply. Opening a new high school significantly increases the probability of pupils from neighboring middle schools continuing in higher secondary education. The effect is exclusively due to new high schools proposing a vocational track. Furthermore, the effect is mainly driven by low-achieving students.

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赛道选择中的学校供应限制：使用高中开学的法国研究

我们研究了初中毕业后开设新高中对个别学校决定的影响。该工作样本涵盖了2007年至2008年至2012年至2013年在法国的所有九年级学生。双向固定效应估计策略使用时间和空间的变化来估计学校供给增加的因果效应。开设一所新的高中大大增加了来自邻近中学的学生继续接受高中教育的可能性。这种影响完全是由于新的高中提出了职业道路建议。此外，这种效果主要是由学习成绩差的学生驱动的。