Parental Income and Higher Education: Evidence from France
研究了法国父母收入与子女高等教育入学率的关系，发现收入每提高10个百分位，入学率增加5.8个百分点，不平等程度与美国相近，并探讨了原因及教育支出分布。
This paper offers new stylized facts on inequality of enrollment in higher education according to parental income in France. On average, an increment of 10 percentiles in the parental income distribution is associated with a 5.8 percentage point increase in the proportion of individuals entering higher education. This degree of inequality is strikingly close to that observed in the United States. We identify potential explanatory factors behind this similar degree of inequality in two markedly different institutional contexts. We then explore one consequence of enrollment disparities, assessing the distribution of spending on higher education.