Great expectations. Channels and barriers to university education

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In spite a great expansion in higher education, in the UK access to university is still quite unequal, with the majority of the student population coming from relatively well-off families. Since this gap seems to emerge at or before applying to university, a few initiatives have been introduced insure that children for any socio-economic background hold high expectations towards university education. This paper uses the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), in combinations with a rich set of administrative data and a novel estimation technique, to investigate the formation of educational expectations for early teen-agers. In particular, we focus on the choice of applying to university and we highlight the role played by the costs of university education in conjunction with expectations on the probability of being admitted for university if apply. We find that there are psychological as well as economic reason which prevent young people from poor backgrounds from applying to university. However, our research concludes that policies aimed at reducing the cost of education for disadvantaged students can be effective in increasing the participation rate
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