中国高中生留学地选择意愿的经济学分析

Economic Analysis of Chinese High School Students’ Desire and Consideration to Choose Overseas Destination for Study

随着高等教育的国际化，中国的留学热持续升温，并趋于低龄化，高中生开始成为出国留学的主要潜在群体之一。那么他们将会去哪里留学？他们在考虑留学地的时候又会受到哪些因素的影响？在回顾消费者选择理论和人力资本投资理论的基础上，一项研究通过建构一个解释留学地选择的消费和投资混合模型，并应用中国高中生大样本调查数据，对上述问题进行了回答。研究发现，高中生选择留学地，不仅会考虑不同留学地所能带来的投资性效用，也会考虑在不同留学地上学的消费性效用，并且不同群体选择留学地时，还会受到家庭背景、学术能力、个人特征等方面的约束和影响。

With the internationalization of higher education over the world, more and more people, especially young people in China choose to study abroad. High school students become one of the groups who are most likely to study abroad. Where will they choose to study? What factors will influence their desire and consideration to choose overseas destination for study? To address these questions, based on the literature review on theories of customer choice and theories of human capital investment, the study built a mixed model of consumption and investment to interpret the choice of overseas destination for study and analyzed the data collected from a large sample of high school students. The results show that when chose places to study, high school students considered not only the investment value but also the consumption value; meanwhile, their choices were affected and restrained by family background, academic ability and personal characteristics etc.