Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

By Daniele Checchi, V. Peragine. Social Science Research Network, 2005

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In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the income distributions of South and North of Italy on the basis of a measure of opportunity inequality. Then, we repeat the exercise using the cognitive abilities in a sample of 15-year old students. In both circumstances we find that the less developed regions in the South are characterized by greater incidence of inequality of opportunity.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth (2013, background): “27 opportunity literature as in Ferreira and Gignoux (2009), Checchi and Peragine (2005), Rodríguez (2008) and Cogneau and Mesplé-Somps (2009).”
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States (2012, result): “By contrast, studies like Gasparini (2002), Checchi and Peragine (2005), Lefranc, Pistolesi, and Trannoy (2008), Ferreira and Gignoux (2011), and Barros, Molinas, and Saavedra (2008) have developed and implemented indices that handle multivariate sets of circumstances, which is a minimum methodologi”
Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda (2007, methodology): “Checchi and Peragine [28] develop a non-parametric approach to obtain the same basic”
A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity (2010, methodology): “Checchi and Peragine (2005) measure inequality of opportunity in Italy based on traditional inequality indices which are decomposable in between-group and within-group elements.”
Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France (2009, background): “…et al. (2000), Checchi et al. (1999), Benabou & Ok (2001), Bourguignon et al. (2007), Goux and Maurin (2003), Alesina and La Ferrara (2005) and Checchi & Peragine (2005) who analyze equality of opportunity for income and Schuetz et al. (2005) who examine educational opportunities are some of…”
Inequality of opportunity in the land of opportunities, 1968–2001 (2009, background): “Finally, Checchi and Peragine [12] turn to the Italian case and propose a decomposition close to Bourguignon et al.”
Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity (2013, background): “The difference between ex post and ex ante perspectives, and the possibility of a clash between them, has already been hinted at in Checchi and Peragine (2005, 2010), Fleurbaey (2008, ch. 9) and Ooghe et al. (2007).”
Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey (2010, background): “3 Bourguignon, Ferreira and Menéndez (2007), Checchi and Peragine (2005), Ferreira and Gignoux (2008), and Lefranc, Pistolesi and Trannoy (2008, 2009).”
Inequality of opportunity in Italy (2010, result): “18In the working paper version of this paper (Checchi and Peragine [7]) we have also studied the distribution of competences in the PISA 2003 survey of competences of 15-year old students, obtaining surprisingly similar results.”