College education, intelligence, and disadvantage: Policy lessons from the UK in 1960-2004 by Prof Andrea Ichino

College education, intelligence, and disadvantage: Policy lessons from the UK in 1960-2004 by Prof Andrea Ichino
Andrea will assess how the enlargement of university access enacted in the UK following the 1963 Robbins Report provides an ideal case study to draw lessons for the future. He will explain that this expansion is associated with a decline of the average intelligence of graduates and of the college wage premium across cohorts, and that it mainly benefited relatively less intelligent students from advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Structural estimates and counterfactual simulations suggest that the implemented policy was unfit to reach high-ability individuals as Robbins had instead advocated, and that a meritocratic selection of university students would have attained that goal and would have also been more egalitarian. This seminar is jointly hosted with CReAM: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration.
Naomi Yohendran
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12/16/2022
01:23:18
CEPEO, Higher Education, Education, policy, equalities
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