Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2018
We use a set of biomarkers to measure inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health in the UK. Applying a direct ex ante … IOp approach, we find that inequalities in health attributed to circumstances account for a non-trivial part of the total … health variation. For example, observed circumstances account for 20% of the total inequalities in our composite measure of …