Journal of Education and Psychology

Abstract

Background is an important factor to influence one’s education, occupation, income and subjective social status. In Taiwan, economic development advanced education expansion and people accepted higher education than before. Does it correspond to the principle of equality that everyone owns equal opportunity to enter college and graduate school?

This research used the nationwide sample (N = 4313) “1997 Social Change Survey”, collected by Academic Sinica to do logic regression. The major findings are as follow:

1. The higher father’s occupation and education, the higher probability of entering or advancing to college. The higher mother’s education, the higher probability of entering to college and graduate school, but lower to public college. Female’s probability of entering or advancing to college and graduate school is lower than male’s. The gap is enlarging in higher education level, but not in entering to public college.
2. One Studied in public college or majored in practical department had higher probability to enter graduate school. More youngers and males had majored in practical department, it promoted the probability of advancing to graduate school. The lower urbanization of birthplace, the higher probability of entering to public schools, but the lower probability of advancing to graduate college.
3. Except the gender, the influence of background on probability of advancing is lowering as the up of education level.

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