Opportunities in Higher Education: An Application to France

Magali Jaoul-Grammare and Brice Magdalou

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Abstract: This paper first sets out criteria to evaluate the inequality of opportunity in higher education. We propose a two-level classification by distinguishing the categorial and the counterfactual approaches. For each approach we consider dominance quasi-orderings and inequality measures. We then apply these criteria to the French higher education system by comparing the situations in 1992 and 2004. Our main findings suggest: (i) that there is inequality of opportunity in each of the two years; and (ii) that the inequality of opportunity tends to increase during the reporting period, especially the opportunity to graduate in the lowest and highest levels of education.

Keywords: Higher education; equality of opportunity; responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism; bidimensional stochastic dominance; divergence measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, pp.295-325. ⟨10.2307/23646335⟩

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DOI: 10.2307/23646335

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