Escaping Poverty: Rural Low-Income Mothers' Opportunity to Pursue Post-Secondary Education

Autor/inn/en	Woodford, Michelle; Mammen, Sheila
Titel	Escaping Poverty: Rural Low-Income Mothers' Opportunity to Pursue Post-Secondary Education
Quelle	In: Career and Technical Education Research, 35 (2010) 2, S.81-102 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-7558
DOI	10.5328/cter35.207
Schlagwörter	Human Capital; Poverty; Mothers; Educational Opportunities; Welfare Services; Rural Population; Public Policy; Longitudinal Studies; Federal Programs; Predictor Variables; Family Characteristics; Community Colleges; Postsecondary Education; Educational Policy; Low Income Groups; Welfare Recipients; Technical Institutes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humankapital; Armut; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Landbevölkerung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Prädiktor; Community college; Community College; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Technische Fakultät
Abstract	Using human capital theory, this paper identifies the factors that may affect the opportunity for rural low-income mothers to pursue post-secondary education or training in order to escape poverty. Dependent variables used in the logistic regression model included micro-level household variables as well as the effects of state-wide welfare policies. Data for our sample of rural low-income mothers came from two waves of a USDA-funded multistate, longitudinal project. The variables that were statistically significant in determining rural mothers' post-secondary educational opportunities included the tuition and fees for a community/technical college, whether or not the participant's father had a post-secondary education, whether or not the participant was living with a partner, the presence of a pre-school aged child, and whether or not the participant lived in a state that had strict Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) work requirements. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10