Falter, Jean-MarcJean-MarcFalterWendelspiess Chávez Juárez, FlorianFlorianWendelspiess Chávez Juárez2024-10-282024-10-282013-04-17https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/180582Education is a major source of inequality of opportunity, whenever scholastic success depends upon children's family background. In Switzerland, a new degree aiming to increase the mobility from lower to higher tracks was introduced for the upper secondary education. We analyze the impact of this degree in terms of inequality of opportunity reducing tool. A two-stage model is used to correct for sample selection bias and to identify inequality reducing effects. Our results are very heterogeneous showing some benefcial effects in terms of inequality reduction for girls, but no reducing effects for boys.enworking_paper10.7892/boris.13087510.2139/ssrn.1928501D. Microeconomics::D6 Welfare Economics::D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and MeasurementI. Health, Education, and Welfare::I2 Education and Research Institutions::I24 Education and InequalityJ. Labor and Demographic Economics::J2 Demand and Supply of Labor::J24 Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity