Tuition fees increased rapidly in the 1990s in most Canadian provinces raising concerns about access to post-secondary education. This paper examines the role of tuition fees in explaining participation in college and university programs from 1997 to 1999 in all provinces except Quebec and Ontario. Differentiated responses to tuition fees by family income and grades are explored. Information on participation patterns of high school graduates is derived from the new Youth in Transition Survey. Other datasets provide approximate measures of tuition and of respondents’ family earnings. The analysis suggests that PSE choices were not particularly sensitive to either tuition fees at their current levels or to family earnings at the time of enrol...
For the past three decades, Canada has adopted post-secondary education policies that have reduced p...
Although Canada is a welfare state, and it has need-based priority student financial aid support pol...
Because students' university enrolment decisions are influenced by expected returns to their educati...
Post-secondary education (PSE) tuition fees have risen significantly in the last decade. Studies sho...
The study uses individual data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey to consider economic factors in...
We use data from the Surveys of Consumer Finance (1975-1993) to examine how postsecondary education ...
In recent decades, we have seen various governing bodies reduce their economic support for the publi...
Abstract We exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers to ...
Draft only. Please do not cite without permission. In 1979, under 30 per cent of full-time universit...
Open accessWe exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers ...
This article examines the most recent data on the cost and financing of a post-secondary education. ...
We examine the extent to which tuition and need-based aid policies explain important differences in ...
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family inc...
The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of ...
Recent increases in university tuition fees are part of a new entrepre- neurial trend in higher educ...
For the past three decades, Canada has adopted post-secondary education policies that have reduced p...
Although Canada is a welfare state, and it has need-based priority student financial aid support pol...
Because students' university enrolment decisions are influenced by expected returns to their educati...
Post-secondary education (PSE) tuition fees have risen significantly in the last decade. Studies sho...
The study uses individual data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey to consider economic factors in...
We use data from the Surveys of Consumer Finance (1975-1993) to examine how postsecondary education ...
In recent decades, we have seen various governing bodies reduce their economic support for the publi...
Abstract We exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers to ...
Draft only. Please do not cite without permission. In 1979, under 30 per cent of full-time universit...
Open accessWe exploit the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A, to investigate access and barriers ...
This article examines the most recent data on the cost and financing of a post-secondary education. ...
We examine the extent to which tuition and need-based aid policies explain important differences in ...
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family inc...
The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of ...
Recent increases in university tuition fees are part of a new entrepre- neurial trend in higher educ...
For the past three decades, Canada has adopted post-secondary education policies that have reduced p...
Although Canada is a welfare state, and it has need-based priority student financial aid support pol...
Because students' university enrolment decisions are influenced by expected returns to their educati...