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Escaping Poverty: Rural Low-Income Mothers' Opportunity to Pursue Post-Secondary Education
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.
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Keywords: post-secondary education; rural low-income mothers; state work requirements
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 2010
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