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Going to university? Family background and tertiary education enrolment in France and Italy

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  • Elisabetta Croci Angelini
  • Francesco Farina

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Differently from the presumption of standard economic theory, empirical evidence suggests that returns to education do not play the most relevant role in tertiary education enrolment. On the whole, the results of our investigation conducted on a probit regression model indicates that the cultural family background has a great influence on the young’s decision to go to university. The offspring’s own income is also very significant in all models, as the p-values are very good in both countries. The main difference between the two countries is that the influence of the father is much lower in France than in Italy, where the coefficient for the father’s education is relevant on average to the same extent than the mother’s education one.

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  • Elisabetta Croci Angelini & Francesco Farina, 2011. "Going to university? Family background and tertiary education enrolment in France and Italy," Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID) University of Siena 0111, Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID), University of Siena.
    • Handle: RePEc:usi:depfid:0111
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    Keywords

    human capital formation; intergenerational mobility; income and educational inequality.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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