has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …The relationship between family income and postsecondary 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 …

may play substantively different roles. The findings suggest that university-going is less common among lower-income … students and members of a visible minority group in the U.S. than among their Canadian counterparts. Some possible reasons are …

choice models, which include indicators for age, income, education, family type, plus several immigrant characteristics, to …

have longer spell lengths than those in higher income families and, among these low-income families, lone-parents and … couples with children generally spend more time living in low-income neighbourhoods than childless couples and unattached … residing in low-income neighbourhoods (residential 'spells'). Although the length of new spells is generally substantial (at …