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A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2019

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on a latent class model. This addresses some of the limitations that affect earlier work in this literature concerning the definition of types, such as partial observability, the...

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Does inequality reduce mobility? The Great Gatsby Curve and its mechanisms

Brandén, Gunnar - 2019

A body of evidence has emerged in the literature on intergenerational mobility documenting that countries with large income differences also have less intergenerational mobility: a relationship known as the Great Gatsby Curve. In this paper, I estimate the Great Gatsby Curve within Sweden...

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Social mobility and economic development: Evidence from a panel of Latin American regions

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the …

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Knapp ein Drittel der EuropäerInnen zweifelt an Chancengerechtigkeit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt

Bohmann, Sandra; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 89 (2022) 7, pp. 97-106

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Computers as stepping stones? Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities

Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022

This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...

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Desigualdades socioespaciais de acesso a oportunidades nas cidades brasileiras - 2019

Pereira, Rafael H. M.; Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira; … - 2019

One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education … opportunities in Brazilian largest cities in 2019 with estimates of access to jobs, health and education services. In this edition … education opportunities than black and low-income people in all of the cities analyzed, regardless of transportation mode. The …

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Does A Wealth Tax Improve Equality of Opportunity?

Berg, Kristoffer; Hebous, Shafik - 2021

Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth affect the labor income distribution of the next generation? We tackle both questions empirically using detailed intergenerational data from Norway, focusing on effects on wages...

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Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies

Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas; Weishaar, Daniel - 2021

Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These...

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The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests

Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon - 2021

In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods—conditional inference regression trees and forests—represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...

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Climbing the ladder: Determinants of access to and returns from higher education in Chile and Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja; Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2020

In spite of large structural expansions in higher education in Chile and Peru during the 1980s and 1990s, and a … favourable growth context, levels of inequality are still very high in both countries and inequities in higher education persist …. This paper investigates the role that higher education has played for social mobility in Chile and Peru. In particular, to …

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