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Chapter 4. Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 217-300). 2015
compensate individuals with disadvantageous circumstances so that outcomes experienced by a population depend only on factors for …
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Approaches to inequality of opportunity : principles, measures and evidence
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - In: Journal of economic surveys 30 (2016) 5, pp. 855-883
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Equality of opportunity
Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - 2015
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On the design of equal-opportunity policies
Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - In: Investigaciones Economicas 31 (2007) 3, pp. 351-374
We study in this paper mechanisms to construct equal-opportunity policies for resource allocation. In a model where individuals enjoy welfare as a function of the e ort they expend, and the amount of a socially provided resource they consume, the aim is to allocate the social resource so that...
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Doing rawls justice: Evidence from the PSID
Abatemarco, Antonio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-33, pp. 1-39
Distributive value judgments based on the 'origins' of economic inequalities (e.g. circumstances and responsible … compared with existing empirical evidences on Roemer's (A Pragmatic Theory of Responsibility for the Egalitarian Planner, 1993 …
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Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences in Field Experiments: Are They Related to Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes? Are Circumstances Important?
MENON, Martina; PERALI, Federico - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 117 (2009) 3, pp. 593-630
paying special attention to the role played by circumstances and responsibilities as the result of individuals’ effort. The …-economic circumstances of a sample of High School leavers in the Veneto region, located in the North-East of Italy, and two samples of … skills, non-cognitive traits, economic parameters and socio-economic circumstances has revealed interesting regularities. …
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Multidimensional inequality comparisons: A compensation perspective
Muller, Christophe; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 4, pp. 1427-1449
resorting to compensation principles in the bivariate case. We treat the attributes of individual utility asymmetrically by …
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Chapter 3. Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 141-216). 2015
This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The chapter also provides a …
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Redistribution and individual characteristics
Iturbe-Ormaetxe, IÓigo - In: Review of Economic Design 3 (1997) 1, pp. 45-55
"talent" and "effort" respectively. The distinction between these two groups is that society has taken the prior decision that …
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Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of equality of opportunity in health : a normative decomposition
Li Donni, Paolo; Peragine, Vitorocco; Pignataro, Giuseppe - In: Health economics 23 (2014) 2, pp. 182-198
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