Abstract
Revealed preferences for equal educational opportunity may be due to beliefs that opportunities increase societal income or income equality. To isolate preferences for those goods, we implement an online discrete choice experiment using social statistics generated from true variation among commuting zones. We find that, ceteris paribus, the average income that individuals are willing to sacrifice is (i) $5,208 dollars to increase higher education (HE) enrollment by 1 standard deviation (14%); (ii) $1,408 dollars to decrease rich/poor gaps in HE enrollment by 1 standard deviation (8%); (iii) $3,298 to decrease the 90/10 income inequality ratio by 1 standard deviation (1.66).
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