Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education : Investissements des parents immigrants dans les études postsecondaires de leurs enfants : rapport final

Assuming set of beliefs parents hold about the purposes and responsibility for the academic success of children is practices of PSE and the value of a university or now widely regarded by the middle class as an essential college credential. [...] The target population for the SAEP the human and material resources available to families; is children between the ages of 0 and 18 living in all the interactions parents initiate that serve to encourage ten provinces in Canada. [...] To the extent that social adaptation at school correlates In this section, we attempt to estimate savings for with parents’ savings, this is an important finding in each of the variables in a model of savings that that it suggests immigrant children are successfully includes selected structural, situational and personal integrating with the social life of the school and, predictors of PSE saving. [...] The other variables used in this analysis, including the conceptually continuous variables (e.g., age and academic performance), are treated as categorical to reflect the discrete nature of the variables and the limited number of categories. [...] The amount of time parents spend interacting with their children represents yet another form of parental investment, although, in the model, this factor was 23 Summary and Conclusions In this study we examined the possibility that immigrant the effects of parents’ education on savings across children may be excluded from participating in PSE immigrant and non-immigrant groups.