Foguel, Miguel; Veloso, Fernando - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 2, pp. 191-220
In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we … construct an opportunity index that modifies the Human Opportunity Index proposed in the literature and used in Barros et …. Specifically, we construct an opportunity measure that includes not only attendance but also parental choice not to enroll children …