Changes in the Extent of Inequality in Access to University Education in Italy

Giorgio Di Pietro

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2008, vol. 98, issue 1, 175-213

Abstract: In this paper we investigate changes over time in university participation between people from richer and poorer family backgrounds in Italy during a period when the structure of the university education has undergone profound changes. We use data from three waves of a survey on a nationally representative sample of recent high school leavers. Our findings show that educational inequality did not show any significant changes between 1995 and 2001. Additionally, using a decomposition analysis, we find that there is no consistent evidence that the 2001 university reform is associated with behavioural changes leading to lower educational inequality

JEL-codes: I20 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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