Going to university? Family background and tertiary education enrolment in France and Italy

Elisabetta Croci Angelini and Francesco Farina

Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID) University of Siena from Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID), University of Siena

Abstract: Differently from the presumption of standard economic theory, empirical evidence suggests that returns to education do not play the most relevant role in tertiary education enrolment. On the whole, the results of our investigation conducted on a probit regression model indicates that the cultural family background has a great influence on the young’s decision to go to university. The offspring’s own income is also very significant in all models, as the p-values are very good in both countries. The main difference between the two countries is that the influence of the father is much lower in France than in Italy, where the coefficient for the father’s education is relevant on average to the same extent than the mother’s education one.

Keywords: human capital formation; intergenerational mobility; income and educational inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01
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