Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education

Corak, Miles; Lipps, Garth; Zhao, John

doi:10.2139/ssrn.491484

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“…47 Although the gap in tertiary participation has narrowed between higher-and lower-income families since the 1990s, individuals from higher-income families still attend in greater numbers than those from lower-income families. 48 Canadian scholars have looked at the reasons that limit tertiary education access for low-income students (that, as evidenced, includes refugees).…”

Section: Findings the Access Consequences Of Low Socio-economic Statusmentioning

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Structural Factors Associated with Higher Education Access for First-Generation Refugees in Canada: An Agenda for Research

Ferede

2012

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Refugees are the least educated migrants upon arrival to Canada. Yet, they invest in Canadian higher education at lower rates than other newcomers. Why might this be? This paper enters this emergent conversation through a review of the Canadian-based empirical literature on the structural factors associated with refugees’ tertiary education access. Research indicates that as part of the low-income population, refugees are likely to misperceive the cost and benefits of higher education and be deterred by high tuition costs. Academic preparedness and tracking in high schools also pose additional constraints. The gap in the literature exposes a need for inquiry into the ways in which pre-arrival experiences influence refugees’ participation in Canada’s post-secondary institutions. The paper concludes by underscoring the need for qualitative research that discerns the lived experiences of refugees outside of the aggregate immigrant grouping typical in education research.

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Section: Findings the Access Consequences Of Low Socio-economic Statusmentioning

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Structural Factors Associated with Higher Education Access for First-Generation Refugees in Canada: An Agenda for Research

Ferede

2012

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“…Others have shown that demographic, socio-economic, geographic/ environmental, and institutional factors are surely also at play (Tuckman, 1970;Frenette, 2006;Mixon & Hsing, 1994;Leppel, 1993). For example, one such sociodemographic factor is family background (e.g., income and parental education) which has been found to influence student's participation in postsecondary education in Canada (Corak et al, 2003;Finnie, 2012;Finnie et al, 2004;Finnie et al, 2005). Further texturing the picture presented here is the availability of different programmes of study within and amongst provinces and their HEIs (Baryla & Dotterweich, 2001).…”

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Higher Education Student Migration in Canada: Interprovincial Structure and the Influence of Student Mother Tongue

Narh

Buzzelli

2022

Canadian Journal of Regional Science

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Approximately ten percent of Canadian higher education students cross provincial boundaries each year to attend college or university. Despite its size and impact, the geography of higher education student migration (HESM) is not well documented in Canada. This paper analyses Statistics Canada's Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) for the academic year 2016/17. Interaction matrixes are developed and mapped to analyse both the broad geographical structure of interprovincial HESM and the impact of language, specifically student mother tongue, in shaping migration patterns. In both the overall picture of HESM and that of mother tongue, HESM generates expected patterns as well as important migration variations. Ontario and Quebec anchor the national picture and, together with others, constitute exchanges amongst contiguous provincial clusters. Unique cross-country interprovincial connections are also revealed and migration by mother tongue generates further nuances still. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this work for understanding (i) migration-based integration amongst Canadian provincial higher education systems, and (ii) with further research, the multi-scalar processes and geographies of HESM for institutional and local economic policy makers.

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“…Worth (2018b) highlights how these money transfers—in addition to parental co‐residence, social connections, and care and emotional support—are just one of many forms of intergenerational transfers that perpetuate wealth and resource inequalities within Canadian families. Rounding out Worth's findings, Statistics Canada research demonstrates an overall deterioration in intergenerational mobility across Canada and a considerable SES participation gap in postsecondary attendance favouring wealthier families (Connolly et al., 2021; Corack et al., 2003). Although the participation gap has narrowed slightly since the mid‐1990s—arguably in response to policy changes concerning student loan eligibility parameters—the national context is one of stagnating intergenerational mobility wherein the likelihood of postsecondary attendance reflects SES.…”

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Socioeconomic differences in parental financial support, coresidence, and advice: A portrait of undergraduate students in the Canadian Prairies

Mazurik

Williamson

Knudson

2023

Canadian Review of Sociology

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In this paper, we examine the intersections of parental support and family socioeconomic background within an undergraduate sample (N = 596) in a mid-sized Canadian Prairie city. Coresidence, financial support, and parental and professional financial advice are examined as types of 'family capital' that may be distributed unequally across socioeconomic groups. In keeping with previous literature, findings showed that students whose parents had university education and higher incomes received more robust coverage of their housing and school expenses. Students whose parents were university-educated were also more likely to be living with a parent, though no relationship was found between parental income and coresidence. Contrasting with previous literature, few relationships were found between socioeconomic background and receipt or influence of financial advice. These results contribute to the literature by generalising claims about family capital to a Canadian student sample, where relatively few studies have empirically examined intergenerational transfers as mechanisms for transmitting privilege during the transition to adulthood. With increasing demands for

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Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Structural Factors Associated with Higher Education Access for First-Generation Refugees in Canada: An Agenda for Research

Structural Factors Associated with Higher Education Access for First-Generation Refugees in Canada: An Agenda for Research

Higher Education Student Migration in Canada: Interprovincial Structure and the Influence of Student Mother Tongue

Socioeconomic differences in parental financial support, coresidence, and advice: A portrait of undergraduate students in the Canadian Prairies

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