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Title: | Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK |
Authors: | Carrieri, Vincenzo Davillas, Apostolos Jones, Andrew M. |
Type: | Article |
Subjects: | FRASCATI::Social sciences::Economics and Business FRASCATI::Social sciences |
Keywords: | equality of opportunity higher education entropy balancing high dimensional fixed effects health income |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | WILEY |
Source: | Review of Income and Wealth |
Volume: | 69 |
Issue: | 4 |
First Page: | 861 |
Last Page: | 885 |
Abstract: | Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK and its consequences for levels of and inequalities in income, physical and mental health. University expansion was characterized by a large increase in the proportion of graduates, with higher rates of graduation among individuals from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Having controlled for birth cohort and lifecycle effects, there is evidence of significant inequality of opportunity (IOp) in the actual outcomes. However, comparing actual outcomes with counterfactual projections, that freeze the likelihood of university graduation and the joint distribution of graduation and circumstances to the pre-1963 levels, we do not detect an impact of the expansion of higher education on IOp in income and only small reductions in IOp in physical and mental health. |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12613 https://ruomo.lib.uom.gr/handle/7000/1800 |
ISSN: | 0034-6586 1475-4991 |
Other Identifiers: | 10.1111/roiw.12613 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Economics |
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