Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy

Laura Serlenga () and Vito Peragine

No 79, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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: 34 pages
Date: 2007
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