ECON 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Higher Education, Human Capital, State Agency For National Security
9 Jul 2016
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The first part of this lecture note is based on finnie, laporte and lascelles, 2004: Statistics canada publication, catalogue number 11f0019mie no. It is not necessary to read any of the original source material. Second, and related, the nation"s economic performance is largely determined by its human resources, and key to this is that the most talented have the chance to go on to post-secondary education regardless of family background. Two definitions of access are employed: i) to any type of post-secondary education (i. e. , from community colleges and vocational schools through university) and ii) to university specifically. They find that, overall, post-secondary education participation rates generally rose over this period. Effect of parents" education on post-secondary participation became even greater through the 1990"s. A large literature now exists on the determinants of post-secondary attendance in canada, focusing on parental education, tuition fees, family income, distance of home from potential school, provincial effects and so forth.
