When measuring inequality of
opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate
within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is
impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that
the researcher estimates a lower bound of the true level of
inequality of opportunity. By using data drawn from 27
Demographic Household Surveys (circa 2008), it is found that
lower bound estimates can have substantial measurement
error, and that measurement error can vary considerably
across countries. As a consequence, lower bound estimates of
inequality of opportunity can demand too little
redistribution to equalize inequalities due to circumstances
and can make the “traditional” cross-country comparisons misleading.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Balcazar Salazar, Carlos |
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| Format: | Working Paper
biblioteca
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2015-07
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| Subjects: | METHODS,
EMPIRICAL APPLICATION,
INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY,
DECOMPOSABLE INEQUALITY MEASURES,
EMPIRICAL APPROACHES,
TIME,
RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS,
INCOME,
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION,
AGE,
GENDER,
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION,
BRAIN RESEARCH,
INEQUALITIES,
POLITICAL ECONOMY,
RESEARCHERS,
EFFECTS,
MEAN LOG DEVIATION,
POLICY DISCUSSIONS,
SAMPLES,
SIZE,
DOWNWARD BIAS,
HIGH CORRELATION,
SURVEYS,
RESEARCH PAPERS,
MEASURES,
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY,
SEX,
WEIGHT,
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
LABOR MARKET,
THEORY,
CHILDREN,
CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS,
DISTRIBUTION OF OUTCOMES,
ESTIMATING,
CHILD,
METHODOLOGIES,
EQUALITY,
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT,
CLEAN WATER,
INEQUALITY MEASURES,
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY,
ESTIMATES,
MEASUREMENT ERROR,
POLICY RESEARCH,
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS,
MEASURING INEQUALITY,
RESEARCH,
SOCIAL ISSUES,
COMPENSATION,
PRODUCT,
UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES,
TOTAL INEQUALITY,
FEMALE,
LINEAR REGRESSION,
INEQUALITY, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24835061/lower-bounds-inequality-opportunity-measurement-error
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22463
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