TY - RPRT AU - Peragine, Vito AU - Serlenga, Laura TI - Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy PY - 2007/Nov/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 3163 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3163 AB - 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. KW - equality of opportunity KW - higher education KW - stochastic dominance ER -