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This chapter addresses the question: under what conditions do higher education policies promote equity? I argue that the lack of shared knowledge and precision over what constitutes equity-enhancing policies undermines our efforts to identify and compare educational policies and practices that reconcile individual and public needs in a democracy. I review the theoretical and philosophical foundations of the terms equality and equity, paying particular attention to the contributions of political philosophers interested in (higher) education as a means of achieving distributive fairness, followed by a discussion of the application challenges involved in defining, measuring, and evaluating empirically whether a particular policy or outcome is more or less equitable.

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    The same is true among education economists, policy scholars, and policymakers interested in educational issues.

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    Selected references used can be found in the Appendix.

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 The author wishes to thank Laura Perna and Michael Paulsen for their support and insights throughout the writing of this chapter. The author also thanks Lewis Luartz, Jacob Apkarian, and Sarah Yoshikawa for their outstanding research assistance.

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Dar, L. (2014). Toward a Better Understanding of Equity in Higher Education Finance and Policy. In: Paulsen, M. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8005-6_12

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