Previous research suggests that high-school students living beyond commuting distance from a university are far less … students who live too far to attend university 'make-up' for this disadvantage by attending college (if one is nearby)? Second … students from attending college? After controlling for various factors associated with postsecondary participation, including …

. Results differ by province, and for provinces where mean achievement gaps would be lower, not all students would benefit. …

which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two … has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …

,086 students and 2,926 school personnel from 180 schools participated in the six regional surveys, with fieldwork completed during …

various factors which affect students' decisions on funding their tertiary study using student loans or through other means … influenced by students' socioeconomic status. Other major influences on this decision include students' demographic and …-ride the influence that family background has on loan taking behaviour. That is, poor students use loans regardless of the …

students are often accused of being less pro-social. The explanations given are that less pro-social people choose to study … economics or that economics studies indoctrinate students to selfish behavior. The paper experimentally tests these postulations … different groups of students. Findings – The experiment supports neither of the postulations: economics students would be …