Modeling higher education participation in the Philippines
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2012-10
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This paper aims to identify and evaluate the characteristics of a college-age household member that would result in their household's decision to send them to college. Using the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS), we performed logit regression analysis to estimate the coefficients of the variables and their corresponding marginal effects. We find that the characteristic with the greatest influence on the household's decision is the educational attainment of the household head followed closely by the household income. The greatest deterrents are if the individual is married and if the individual is male. Important policy implications concern improving access of tertiary education for the poor, as well as actions the government may undertake in order to mitigate the factors that greatly negatively affect tertiary education participation, while focusing its efforts on factors that strongly positively influence tertiary education participation.
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Higher education, College