Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil

By François Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, M. Menéndez. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence (2012, methodology): “The dual to (8) is due to Bourguignon et al. (2007): fix a reference value for the circumstance variable, aC to obtain yEO6k ( aC ) = ĝ ( aC , aRk , ek ) .”
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons (2013, background): “Bourguignon et al. (2007) also noted differences between estimates for individual earnings and for household per capita incomes, which they attributed to the fact that unequal opportunities affect the latter not only through earnings, but also through assortative mating, fertility decisions, and…”
Inequality of Opportunities vs. Inequality of Outcomes: Are Western Societies All Alike? (2008, background): “Analyzing the extent of equality of opportunity for income acquisition remains a challenging problem and only few recent analysis have addressed it (see Roemer et al. (2003) and Bourguignon et al. (2007)).”
Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey (2010, unknown): “[5], and Ferreira and Gignoux [11] in adopting the utilitarian ex-ante approach to inequality of opportunity: We are interested in capturing inequality in the value of the opportunity sets available to each type, and we value those sets by their mean outcome, so that equality of opportunity is defin”
Inequality of opportunity in the land of opportunities, 1968–2001 (2009, methodology): “Similar procedures are implemented by Bourguignon et al. [ 7 , 8] and Mata and Machado [29].”
The Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and an Application to Latin America (2008, unknown): “Following Bourguignon et al. (2007), consider a “model of advantage” of the general form: ( )uECfy ,,= (1) where y denotes the outcome of interest (Roemer’s “advantage”); C denotes a vector of circumstance variables; E denotes a vector of effort variables; and u denotes pure luck or other random…”
Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France (2009, background): “…in Roemer (1998), we refer to the former determinants 1Roemer et al. (2003), O’Neill 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…”
Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity (2013, methodology): “Second, as suggested by Bourguignon et al. (2007b) and World Bank (2006), the degree of circumstances-based inequalities, rather than income inequality, could be related to aggregate economic performance and economic growth.”
Measuring Unfair (in) Equality (2008, background): “Alternative approaches to cope with the distinction between fair and unfair inequalities are given in Bourguignon et al. (2007), Devooght (2008), and Roemer et al.”
Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth (2013, background): “…Ruiz-Castillo (2003), Peragine (2002 and 2004), Checchi and Peragine (2005), Betts and Roemer (2007), Moreno-Ternero (2007), Ooghe et al. (2007), Fleurbaey and Maniquet (2007), Bourguignon et al. (2007), Lefranc et al. (2008 and forthcoming), Rodríguez (2008) and Ferreira and Gignoux (2008).”
Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “As described in Bourguignon et al. (2007), circumstances are factors that are out of the individual’s control, such as gender, race, family background, and place of birth, but that may affect their capacity to gain advantages.”
Inequality of Opportunity in Europe (2012, methodology): “…for a particular type, the income will be determined exclusively by 10The main difference between the approaches in Ferreira and Gignoux (2011) and Bourguignon et al. (2007b) is that the former seeks to estimate a lower-bound of the true IO because all individual circumstances certainly cannot be…”
Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality: The Latin American Case* (2014, background): “In a seminal paper analyzing the Brazilian case, Bourguignon et al. (2007) considered the role that circumstances play in accounting for earnings inequality.”