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Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France

In: Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility

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  • Francesco Andreoli
  • Arnaud Lefranc
  • Vincenzo Prete

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Educational policies are widely recognized as the meanspar excellenceto equalize opportunities among children with different social and family backgrounds and to promote intergenerational mobility. In this chapter, we focus on the French case and we apply the opportunity equalization criterion proposed by Andreoli, Havnes, and Lefranc (2019) for evaluating the effect of rising compulsory schooling requirements in secondary education. Our results show that such education expansion has a limited redistributive effect on students’ earnings distribution. Nonetheless, we provide evidence of opportunity equalization among groups of students defined by family background circumstances.

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  • Francesco Andreoli & Arnaud Lefranc & Vincenzo Prete, 2020. "Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility, volume 28, pages 123-149, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reinzz:s1049-258520200000028005
    DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520200000028005
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    Keywords

    Equality of opportunity; education; inverse stochastic dominance; economic distance; income distribution; policy evaluation; D63; J62; C14;
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General

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