Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data
By H. Chowdry, Claire E. Crawford, L. Dearden, Alissa Goodman, A. Vignoles. Social Science Research Network, 2008
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Summary. The paper makes use of newly linked administrative education data from England to understand better the determinants of participation in higher education (HE) among individuals from low socio‐economic backgrounds. The data are unique in being able to follow the population of two cohorts of pupils in England—those who might have entered HE between 2004–2005 and 2006–2007—from age 11 to age 20 years. The findings suggest that, although large differences in HE participation rates and participation rates at high status universities by socio‐economic background remain, these differences are substantially reduced once prior achievement is included. Moreover, these findings hold for both state and private school pupils. This result suggests that poor achievement in secondary schools is more important in explaining lower HE participation rates among pupils from low socio‐economic backgrounds than barriers arising at the point of entry to HE. These findings are consistent with the need for earlier policy intervention to raise HE participation rates among pupils from low socio‐economic backgrounds.
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16 (2010, unknown): “…attainment, or in choices about whether to stay on in post-compulsory schooling or whether to go to university (see Cameron & Taber, 2004, Cameron & Heckman, 1998 and 2001, and Carneiro & Heckman, 2002, for the US; and Dearden et al., 2004, and Chowdry et al., 2008 for evidence from the UK).”
- Earnings Returns to the British Education Expansion. (2011, methodology): “The Education Expansion (EE) Figure 1 (taken from Chowdry et al. 2010) shows the age participation index (API) by year as calculated by the UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES).3 Clearly, this index is flat from around 1970 to 1988 and then jumps from 1989 to 1994.”