%0 Report %A Peragine, Vito %A Serlenga, Laura %T Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy %D 2007 %8 2007 Nov %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 3163 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3163 %X 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. %K equality of opportunity %K higher education %K stochastic dominance