Add to ORKGThis paper uses data sources from England with the unique capacity to measure dis-tances between home addresses and education institutions, to investigate, for the first time, the effect that such distance has on an individual’s post-compulsory edu-cation participation decision. The results show that there is a small overall effect. However, when attention is focused on young people who are on the margin of par-ticipating in post-compulsory education (according to their prior attainment and family background) and when post-compulsory education is distinguished by whether it leads to academic or vocational qualifications, then greater distance to nearest education institution is seen to have a significant impact on the decision to continue i...