TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Corak, Miles
AU  - Lipps, Garth
AU  - Zhao, John
        TI  - Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education
        PY  - 2004/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 977
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp977
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - educational finance
KW  - university
        ER  -