Abstract We exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers to postsecondary education (PSE). We first look at how access to PSE by age 21 is related to family characteristics, including family income and parental education. We find that the effects of the latter significantly dominate those of the former. Among the 25% of all youths who do not access PSE, 23% of this group state that they had no PSE aspirations and 43% report no barriers. Only 22% of the 25% who do not access PSE (or 5.5% of all youths in our sample) claim that “finances” constitute a barrier. Further analysis suggests that affordability per se is an issue in only a minority of those cases where finances are cited, suggesting that the r...
Data from the Young Lives survey in Peru show there is a gap between young people’s aspirations for ...
Highlights discussions from a May 2010 convening on proven strategies to increase the number of Amer...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/Documents de tra...
Open accessWe exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers ...
The purpose of this paper is to determine why first-generation students (defined as those students w...
Tuition fees increased rapidly in the 1990s in most Canadian provinces raising concerns about access...
This paper exploits the unprecedented rich information available in the Youth in Transition Survey, ...
Research conducted over the past two decades has revealed that parental education is an important de...
This paper provides an empirical analysis of access to post-secondary education among under represen...
As economic circumstances remain difficult and CAO applications reach record numbers, there has been...
This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and ...
This paper uses longitudinal data from a survey of youth in three areas (Hamilton, Halifax and rural...
While access to postsecondary education in Canada has increased over the past decade, a number of re...
This research exploits the uniquely rich Youth in Transition Survey to investigate access to post-se...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/Documents de tra...
Data from the Young Lives survey in Peru show there is a gap between young people’s aspirations for ...
Highlights discussions from a May 2010 convening on proven strategies to increase the number of Amer...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/Documents de tra...
Open accessWe exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers ...
The purpose of this paper is to determine why first-generation students (defined as those students w...
Tuition fees increased rapidly in the 1990s in most Canadian provinces raising concerns about access...
This paper exploits the unprecedented rich information available in the Youth in Transition Survey, ...
Research conducted over the past two decades has revealed that parental education is an important de...
This paper provides an empirical analysis of access to post-secondary education among under represen...
As economic circumstances remain difficult and CAO applications reach record numbers, there has been...
This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and ...
This paper uses longitudinal data from a survey of youth in three areas (Hamilton, Halifax and rural...
While access to postsecondary education in Canada has increased over the past decade, a number of re...
This research exploits the uniquely rich Youth in Transition Survey to investigate access to post-se...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/Documents de tra...
Data from the Young Lives survey in Peru show there is a gap between young people’s aspirations for ...
Highlights discussions from a May 2010 convening on proven strategies to increase the number of Amer...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/Documents de tra...