{"id":189688,"date":"2026-05-25T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=189688"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:20:02","slug":"has-the-expansion-of-higher-education-created-regional-inequalities-lessons-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/en\/news\/has-the-expansion-of-higher-education-created-regional-inequalities-lessons-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the expansion of higher education created regional inequalities? Lessons from Italy \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of adults completing higher education in Europe has risen rapidly over the last century. By 2023, the number of tertiary education students in the EU had reached 18.8 million. Simone MORICONI, professor and Director of I\u00c9SEG\u2019s Research Center on Family, Labor and Migration Economics, has been studying the economic consequences of higher education expansion, notably in terms of local and regional economic development in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/insights.ieseg.fr\/en\/resource-center\/economics-finance\/expansion-higher-education-regional-inequalities-lessons-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of adults completing higher education in Europe has risen rapidly over the last century. 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