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.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Social Science Research Network

• Publication date

  2007-11-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Economics, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S1049-2585(08)16004-5
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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