arXiv:2602.17972cs.LG2026-02KDD被引 1

用计算模型分析学生上学流动,帮政策制定者更公平地分配教育资源。

Student Flow Modeling for School Decongestion via Stochastic Gravity Estimation and Constrained Spatial Allocation

  • 构建随机重力模型,量化距离、学费和家庭背景对择校的影响。
  • 发现地理近便性影响是学费的四倍,学位容量才是关键瓶颈。
  • 适合教育政策制定者与数据驱动决策的研究者参考。

学校超载问题在低收入和中等收入国家尤为突出,严重影响学习效果并加剧教育不平等。尽管将学生从公立学校转移至私立学校的补贴计划可缓解此问题而无需大规模基建,但常因数据系统碎片化而效果不佳。菲律宾教育服务承包计划作为全球最大的教育补贴项目之一,未能实现减负目标,根源在于缺乏科学的数据分析能力来理解学生入学流动的成因,特别是家庭如何响应经济激励与空间限制。本文提出一种计算框架,整合近3000所机构的异构政府数据,采用负二项回归估计随机重力模型,得出距离、净学费成本及社会经济因素的行为弹性。这些弹性参数被用于双约束空间分配机制,模拟不同补贴水平下的学生再分配,同时遵守起点生源池与终点学位容量限制。研究发现,地理接近性对择校的制约作用是学费的四倍,且学位容量而非补贴金额才是主要约束。结果表明,仅靠补贴无法解决系统性超载问题;计算建模能揭示结构性约束,助力教育政策制定者在资源有限的情况下做出更公平、基于数据的决策。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

School congestion, where student enrollment exceeds school capacity, is a major challenge in low- and middle-income countries. It highly impacts learning outcomes and deepens inequities in education. While subsidy programs that transfer students from public to private schools offer a mechanism to alleviate congestion without capital-intensive construction, they often underperform due to fragmented data systems that hinder effective implementation. The Philippine Educational Service Contracting program, one of the world's largest educational subsidy programs, exemplifies these challenges, falling short of its goal to decongest public schools. This prevents the science-based and data-driven analyses needed to understand what shapes student enrollment flows, particularly how families respond to economic incentives and spatial constraints. We introduce a computational framework for modeling student flow patterns and simulating policy scenarios. By synthesizing heterogeneous government data across nearly 3,000 institutions, we employ a stochastic gravity model estimated via negative binomial regression to derive behavioral elasticities for distance, net tuition cost, and socioeconomic determinants. These elasticities inform a doubly constrained spatial allocation mechanism that simulates student redistribution under varying subsidy amounts while respecting both origin candidate pools and destination slot capacities. We find that geographic proximity constrains school choice four times more strongly than tuition cost and that slot capacity, not subsidy amounts, is the binding constraint. Our work demonstrates that subsidy programs alone cannot resolve systemic overcrowding, and computational modeling can empower education policymakers to make equitable, data-driven decisions by revealing the structural constraints that shape effective resource allocation, even when resources are limited.

教育政策空间建模数据驱动资源配置

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。