The relationship between geography and early transfer behavior has received limited empirical attention. In this study, we track six cohorts of university and community college entrants to examine differences in the early pathways they travel through Ontario post-secondary education (PSE), paying particular attention to how transfer pathway uptake by students in the province's rural north might vary from those in the more urbanized southern regions. Overall, we observe only modest regional differences in early transfer pathway uptake, with parental income proving to be a more constituent predictor of transfer. However, we do find more sizable net regional differences in the propensity that students will drop out within two years of entering PSE, with northern students being significantly more at risk of leaving PSE in their early years.

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地理重要吗？安大略省高等教育内早期转学的区域分析*

地理与早期转移行为之间的关系受到的实证关注有限。在这项研究中，我们跟踪了六组大学和社区学院的入学者，以研究他们在安大略省高等教育 (PSE) 中早期升学途径的差异，特别关注该省学生如何接受转学途径。北部农村地区可能与城市化程度较高的南部地区有所不同。总体而言，我们观察到早期转移途径采用的地区差异不大，事实证明，父母收入是转移的更重要的预测因素。然而，我们确实发现学生在进入 PSE 两年内退学的倾向存在更大的净地区差异，北方学生在早年离开 PSE 的风险明显更大。