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Abstract
Educational policies are widely recognized as the means par excellence to equalize opportunities among children with different social and family backgrounds and to promote intergenerational mobility. In this chapter, we focus on the French case and we apply the opportunity equalization criterion proposed by Andreoli, Havnes, and Lefranc (2019) for evaluating the effect of rising compulsory schooling requirements in secondary education. Our results show that such education expansion has a limited redistributive effect on students’ earnings distribution. Nonetheless, we provide evidence of opportunity equalization among groups of students defined by family background circumstances.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 123-149 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Research on Economic Inequality |
| Volume | 28 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Luxembourg Fonds National de la Recherche (IMCHILD grant INTER/NORFACE/16/11333934)Projects
- 1 Finished
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IMCHILD: The impact of childhood circumstances on individual outcomes over the life-course
Van Kerm, P., Peichl, A., Waldenström, D., Lefranc, A., Trannoy, A., Iryna, K., Adermon, A., Kanbur, R., Roemer, J., Andreoli, F., Doorley, K. & Hartung, A.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research