Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey
By Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux, Meltem A. Aran. 2010
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The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data limitations. This paper proposes two alternative approaches to circumventing the missing data problems in countries where a demographic and health survey (DHS) and an ancillary household expenditure survey are available. One method relies only on the DHS, and constructs a wealth index as a measure of economic advantage. The alternative method imputes consumption from the ancillary survey into the DHS. In both cases, we compute a lower bound estimator of the share of (ex-ante) inequality of opportunity in total inequality. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are calculated for each method, and the parametric approach is shown to yield preferable lower-bound measures. In an application to the sample of ever-married women aged 30–49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26% (31%) of overall inequality in imputed consumption (the wealth index).
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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In Sociology and Political Science
- Alain Trannoy
- John E. Roemer
- Francisco H. G. Ferreira
- V. Peragine
- P. Brunori
- Gaston Yalonetzky
- Gustavo A. Marrero
- Marc Fleurbaey
Citations in the corpus
- Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “Ferreira, Gignoux, and Aran (2011) study the case of Turkey, which has roughly the same level of development as Brazil, and find that on a sample of ever -married women aged thirty–forty-nine, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent of overall inequality in imputed consumption,…”
- Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons (2013, background): “The eight papers are Checchi et al. (2010); Ferreira and Gignoux (2011); Ferreira et al. (2011); Pistolesi (2009); Singh (2011); Belhaj-Hassine (2012), Cogneau and Mesple-Somps (2008) and Piraino (2012).”