“One pattern evident in the figure is that … higher family income is associated with a greater probability that a child will enter and will graduate from college…A second pattern evident is that … the increases were highly uneven, with gains largest at the top of the income distribution and smallest at the right.” (Bailey & Dynarski, 2011)
References
Bailey, M., & Dynarski, S. (2011). Inequality in postscondary education. In G. Duncan & R. Murnane (Eds.), Whither opportunity?: Rising inequality, schools, and children’s life chances. Russell Sage Foundation; Spencer Foundation.