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Gender Differences in the Influence of Parental Class on Young Adults' Participation in Postsecondary Education in the US
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Weiss, Felix; Scholten, Mirte M. M. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
As with earlier social disparities in educational achievement, re-enrolment in college education can depend on parental social background. We link this finding with gender differences using data from the US National Longitudinal Study of Youth 79 and ask if the decision to re-enrol in college is influenced by parental social class in a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Young Adults, Postsecondary Education, Student Participation