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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
The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and Dworkin (1981a,b) . Equality of opportunity exists when policies compensate individuals with disadvantageous...
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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
RAMOS, X.; GAER, D. VAN DE - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021
In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure multidimensional deprivation when only dichotomous variables are available to assess deprivation in the various deprivation domains, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a...
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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021
In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure multidimensional deprivation when only dichotomous variables are available to assess deprivation in the various deprivation domains, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601360
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Is India Better off Today than 15 Years ago? A Robust Multidimensional Answer
Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2007
important individual attributes on the basis of ethically robust dominance criteria. The individual attributes considered are … attributes, of the first and the second order dominance criteria of Atkinson and Bourguignon (1982) and are known to correspond … individual utility functions satisfy the assumptions of second order dominance agree that India is better off in 2002 than in …
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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003
This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269638
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719307
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Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744652