The Impact of Enrollment Expansion,Family Economic Capital and Access to Postgraduate Education Opportunities——An Analysis Based on the CFPS2020
Whether the access to postgraduate education opportunities is affected by the postgraduate enrollment expansion policy and varies according to the differences in family economic capital,which is an important manifestation of educational equity.Using the 5828 samples in the CFPS2020 database,this paper explores the relationship between postgraduate enrollment expansion,family economic capital differences and postgraduate education opportunities.The results go as the following:both the impact of postgraduate enrollment expansion policy and family economic capital will increase the probability of obtaining postgraduate education opportunities;this result is still acceptable after controlling variables such as gender and ethnicity;the children from low-income families can obtain more opportunities for postgraduate education from the enrollment expansion;families with different levels of economic capital have relatively narrow differences in access to postgraduate education opportunities,that is,the postgraduate enrollment expansion policy has expanded the channels for children from low-income families to move upward.
the impact of enrollment expansionfamily economic capitalpostgraduate education