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| Titre : | Post-secondary funding and the educational attainment of indigenous students (2023) |
| Auteurs : | Maggie E.C. Jones |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Economics of Education Review (Vol. 97, December 2023) |
| Article en page(s) : | 102475 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ ACCES A L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ; FINANCEMENT DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ; EDUCATION ; DISCRIMINATION RACIALE ; BOURSE D'ETUDES ; ECONOMIE DE L'EDUCATION ; INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE ; CANADA |
| Résumé : | This paper uses cutbacks to a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous peoples in Canada to understand how changes in the costs of higher education affect the educational attainment and labour market outcomes of Indigenous groups. I exploit exogenous variation in exposure to student aid across cohorts and ethnicities to show that increasing the costs of post-secondary education not only affects post-secondary attainment but can also lead to a sizable decrease in high school graduation rates. After reductions in targeted student aid in the late 1980s, high school graduation rates declined by five percentage points on Indian reserves. I suggest that this finding is consistent with a model of human capital acquisition in which the return to a high school degree is low. In this framework, some students complete high school in order to attend a post-secondary institution. When post-secondary education is no longer affordable, some students may no longer find it worthwhile to complete high school. In the long-run, the program cutbacks had lasting adverse effects on labour supply. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102475 |
