Scholars have sought to quantify the extent of inequality which is inherited from past generations in multiple ways …, including a large body of work on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity. This paper makes two contributions … inequality of opportunity fit within a general framework which involves, as a first step, a calculation of the extent to which …

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region … a paucity of representative datasets containing linked information on parents and children, the inequality of …-post conception of inequality of opportunity - are introduced to address this shortcoming. They yield a set of new inequality of …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …-exhaustive) range of 'pre-distribution' and 'redistribution' policies with a sound empirical track record of raising productivity and …

Public Policy - provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A simple … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …

In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, a number of cross …-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and … exclusion criteria, and quality of documentation. A special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, which this paper …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a …

decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent … direct effect of minimum wages on inequality was muted. …