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Woodford, Michelle; Mammen, Sheila – Career and Technical Education Research, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Poverty, Mothers, Educational Opportunities