%0 Report
        %A Corak, Miles
%A Lipps, Garth
%A Zhao, John
        %T Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 977
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp977
        %X 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.
        %K intergenerational mobility
%K educational finance
%K university