ABSTRACT
This work investigates the influence of family background variables (father’s schooling, mother’s schooling, and family income) on the result of a student’s application to access a Brazilian institution of technical and vocational education. The research used secondary data carried out 19,226 observations, and formulated a conceptual model with three hypotheses. The results were presented in three stages: I - separation of campuses into clusters; II - analysis of multiple regressions; and, III - analysis of logistic regressions. One of the hypotheses was rejected and two were confirmed, indicating that there is a positive effect of the variables family income and father’s schooling, but no statistical significance for the variable mother’s schooling.
Keywords:
human capital; economy; family background; technological education