Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - In: Review of Income and Wealth 67 (2021) 4, pp. 900-927
We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with the IOP theory of Roemer (1998) can be straightforwardly estimated by adopting a machine learning approach, and apply our method to analyze the development of IOP in Germany during the past three decades. Hereby, we...