Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education

Miles Corak, Garth Lipps (garth.lipps@statcan.ca) and John Zhao (john.zhao@statcan.ca)
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Garth Lipps: Statistics Canada
John Zhao: Statistics Canada

No 977, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families has in fact narrowed. The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation did become stronger during the early to mid 1990s, but weakened thereafter. This pattern reflects the fact that policy changes increasing the maximum amount of a student loan as well as increases in other forms of support occurred only after tuition fees had already started increasing.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility; educational finance; university (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2004-01
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Published - published in: Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis (eds.), Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

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