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Isaac Addai – Cogent Education, 2024
Using data from the latest 2017 Ghana Living Standards Survey Round Seven, this paper explores variables affecting household spending on education using the OLS model. The results showed that in the 12 months preceding the survey, household in the southern regions of Ghana increased their education spending on all the three types of the education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Living Standards, National Surveys, Expenditures
Hannu Lehti; Heikki Kinnari – European Education, 2024
Applying a Bourdieusian perspective, we investigate whether families' institutionalized cultural capital (parental education) and economic capital (family income) are associated with the duration of university studies in Finland. We use register data comprising 10,516 students enrolled in universities between 1999 and 2002 and Tobit modeling. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Time to Degree
Andres, Lesley – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine if educational homogamy patterns are associated intergenerationally, the extent to which today's couples are homogamous, and how this translates into levels of family income and financial and overall well-being. To examine these relationships, 28 years of longitudinal data from the British Columbia…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Marriage, Family Income, Well Being
Matsuyama, Yusuke; Subramanian, S. V.; Fujiwara, Takeo – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
Higher education increases the likelihood of a healthy and successful life. This study investigated the association between relative deprivation and aspiration for college education in adolescents in Japan. The data of the 2016 survey of the Longitudinal Survey of Newborns in the twenty-first Century, a nationwide birth cohort study following…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Adolescents, Poverty, Academic Aspiration
Kazuhisa Furuta – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The expansion of higher education through the privatisation of funding sources raises a question regarding socioeconomic inequality in participation in higher education. To explore mechanisms of educational inequality, this study examines how different indicators of socioeconomic background work together to influence both participation in higher…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Parent Financial Contribution, Financial Problems
Im, Bok Guat – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
Obtaining a bachelor's degree is often conceived as the ultimate goal for post-secondary and diploma students. However, this goal is not always immediately available or accessible for students. Delays in higher education enrolment have considerable disadvantages for students as they are often associated with lower graduation rates and lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Higher Education, Distance Education
Cai, Qingfeng; Wu, Guanchen; Chen, Wuyuan – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2022
Based on data from the China Statistical Yearbook and China Family Panel Survey (CFPS), this article investigated the influence of regional transportation infrastructure development on family education expectations. Research results show that there is a significant positive correlation between transportation infrastructure and family educational…
Descriptors: Transportation, Family Attitudes, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Bernard C. Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While higher education has been known as the great equalizer, the racial wealth gap of college graduates is overlooked: Among college-educated households (2013) the median net worth was $359,928 for white households; $250,637 for Asian households; $49,606 for Hispanic households; and $32,780 households for Black households. Although MSIs…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Race, Educational Attainment, Racial Differences
Policy Translation of Social Movement Demands: The Case of Free-Tuition in Higher Education in Chile
Veliz, Daniela; Pickenpack, Astrid; Villalobos, Cristóbal – Berkeley Review of Education, 2022
In 2011, Chile experienced massive student protests against the marketization of education. During 2013, center-left President Michelle Bachelet proposed tuition-free higher education for Chile's families in the bottom 70th percentile of the income distribution, fueling controversy due to the uncertainty and unexpected consequences of the policy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Oscar Espinoza; Bruno Corradi; Luis González; Luis Sandoval; Noel McGinn; Trinidad Vera – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
Fifty years ago, the expansion of access to higher education was expected to result in greater socio-economic equality. Instead, segmentation in mass higher education systems has called into question the effective democratization of access to higher education. This phenomenon appeared first in higher income countries, allowing the identification…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Academic Achievement, Equal Education
Yue, Xiaoyao; Wanglee, Weichi; Yin, Ying; Ye, Yan; Cai, Ting – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
This study investigates the influence of environmental attitudes of Chinese students in higher education institutions (HEIs). It included 988 students at ten higher education institutions and administered an "environmental attitudes inventory" questionnaire to investigate gender, grade level of study, institution level, parental…
Descriptors: Environment, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Parent Background
Susan L. Robertson – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Politics of Education, Citizenship, Personal Autonomy
Das, Pradip Kumar; Pandiyan, Guru D. V.; Parkunan, Thulasiraman; Ingole, Shailesh D.; Patra, Amlan Kumar; Ghosh, Prabal Ranjan; Goswami, Arunasis – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: This paper explored the impact of prolonged lockdown caused by coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic on the academic aspects of veterinary students of India and its relationship with their socio-economic status. Design/methodology/approach: We conducted a study with 224 first-year veterinary students engaged in e-learning system from…
Descriptors: Veterinary Medical Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
Margaret W. Cahalan; Nicole Brunt; Terry Vaughan III; Erick Montenegro; Stephanie Breen; Esosa Ruffin; Laura W. Perna – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2024
The theme of the Equity Indicators for 2024 is confronting the realities and exploring feasible solutions related to the paradoxical and unequal higher education system. As the figure shows, higher education in the United States is increasingly the major agent of overcoming poverty and of attaining upward mobility toward the so-called…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Equal Education
Phillip B. Levine; Dubravka Ritter – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024
We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal, omitting those assets mechanically increases the…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, Access to Education