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Parental education and family characteristics: Educational opportunities across cohorts in Italy and Spain
Ist Teil von
Revista de economía aplicada, 2012, Vol.20 (58), p.119-146
Ort / Verlag
Zaragoza: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Drawing on data contained in the 2005 EU-SILC, this paper investigates the disparities in educational opportunities in Italy and Spain. Its main objective is to analyse the predicted probabilities of completing upper-secondary and tertiary education for individuals with different parental background, and the changes in these probabilities across birth cohorts extending from 1940 to 1980. The results suggest that the disparities in tertiary education opportunities in Italy tend to increase over time. By contrast, the gap in educational opportunity in Spain shows a marked decrease across the cohorts. Moreover, by using an intuitive decomposition strategy, the paper shows that a large part of the educational gap between individuals from different educational backgrounds is "composed" of the difference in the endowment of family characteristics. Specifically, it seems that more highly educated parents are more able to endow their children with a better composition of family characteristics, which accounts for a significant proportion of the observed disparities in educational opportunity. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]