Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy

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.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Peragine, Vito ; Serlenga, Laura
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Bildungschancen \| Hochschule \| Italien \| Equality of opportunity \| higher education \| stochastic dominance

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 3163
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	560861664 [GVK] hdl:10419/35109 [Handle]
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	EconStor

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