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:	Serlenga, Laura ; Peragine, Vito
Institutions:	Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ
Subject:	Equality of Opportunity \| Higher Education \| Stochastic Dominance

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 79 34 pages
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; I2 - Education ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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