There's a book on educational mobility in Canada that I've read a bit of, if anyone's really interested in this topic. One of the themes is that parental education has a far greater influence on decisions regarding post-secondary than parental income does. Policy about access to post-secondary education has almost always focused historically on the relationship between parental income and access, but that's only one of many issues that determine who goes to post-secondary.
Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters: Accessing and Persisting in Post-secondary education in Canada.
Finnie, Mueller, Sweetman, and Usher - Kingston and Montreal school of public policy
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