Title
Geographic mobility and social inequality among Peruvian university students
Date Issued
01 March 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore geographic mobility among university students in Peru and to understand how mobility patterns differ by region and by demographic indicators of inequality. The ways that students may be able to move geographically in order to access quality higher education within the educational system can be a driver of equality or inequality, depending on who is able to take advantage. Using data from a university census, we examine how demographic indicators of inequality are related to geographic mobility for university attendance, how prior geographic mobility predicts later mobility for university attendance, and how these relationships differ based on the number and quality of universities in a region. Results show that sociodemographic variables related to social inequality explain a substantial amount of students' postsecondary mobility. However, some of these relationships do not operate in the same way in all of the regions. Depending on the availability of universities and their quality, patterns of association between inequality and geographic mobility change. Implications for higher education policy as well as further research examining geographic mobility and inequality in education are discussed.
Start page
449
End page
469
Volume
75
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la educación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85018766970
Source
Higher Education
ISSN of the container
00181560
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