Economics & Finance

A few days ago, I was talking with some friends of mine in the MSc in Mathematical Finance at the University of Warwick. Some of them were telling me how happy they were with the MSc, while others wondered whether they had made the right choice by selecting it or raised critical arguments about several aspects of this MSc and others. In any case, this inspired me to carry out an honest review and comparison of what I consider to be the top MSc programmes in the UK, according

At this point, I have already discussed the definition of inequality of opportunity and how it is measured, how it is transmitted and affects social mobility, and the empirical evidence for the Spanish case. By looking at the empirical evidence and understanding the transmission mechanisms, we were able to reach some very important conclusions: In Spain, we have greatly expanded formal educational opportunities, especially through access to education, but we have not equalise

In the previous articles, I tried to introduce, in a simple way, what we mean by inequality of opportunity, as well as the most important transmission mechanisms and the economic and social consequences of inequality of opportunity. However, once the general idea has been defined, a much more concrete question remains: what does the empirical evidence tell us? In other words, when researchers try to measure this phenomenon with data, what do they find? To what extent does fam