Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy

Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga ()

No 3163, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper proposes a definition of equality of educational opportunities. Then, it develops a comprehensive model that allows to test for the existence of equality of opportunity in a given distribution and to rank distributions according to equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an empirical analysis of equality of opportunity for higher education in Italy.

Keywords: equality of opportunity; higher education; stochastic dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D63 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2007-11
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