The project explores causes and effects of education inequality in the current context of tertiary education, providing policymakers, scholars, and practitioners with a framework to identify new challenges related to the access to education for underprivileged students.
Unpacking the role of several determinants, particularly related to social background, geographical location, high-school path and family environment, the project tracks their impact on the university pathway and the performances in the labour market. We rely on a unique administrative dataset that combines multiple data sources containing different beneficial characteristics for this type of analysis. The goal is to (i) deepen our understanding of the causes and long-term effects of inequality in tertiary education and (ii) test the effectiveness of scalable interventions.