Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy

Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga ()
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Laura Serlenga: University of Bari and IZA

No 3163, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (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: D63 I2 C14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-11
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