The impact of parental layoff on higher education investment
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Social and economic changes in the past decade, and especially the economic crisis of 2007, likely impacted financial access to education.
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- Authors
- Pan, W., & Ost, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ost, Ben
- Venue
- Economics of Education Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-10
- Volume
- 42
- Pages
- 53-63
- ISSN
- 0272-7757 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984778560
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 6.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Economics of Education Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- parental job loss, college enrollment, higher education investment
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