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Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy

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Laura Serlenga () (University of Bari)
Vito Peragine () (University of Bari)
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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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Paper provided by ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality in its series Working Papers with number 79.

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Date of creation: 2007
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Keywords: Equality of Opportunity Higher Education Stochastic Dominance

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D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods

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