Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence

By Xavier Ramos, Dirk Van de gaer. Social Science Research Network, 2012

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We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of opportunity. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. John E. Roemer
2. Alain Trannoy
3. Florencia Torche
4. Gaston Yalonetzky

In Sociology and Political Science

1. John E. Roemer
2. Alain Trannoy
3. Florencia Torche
4. Marc Fleurbaey
5. Gaston Yalonetzky

Citations in the corpus

• Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “20 We conclude with an insight borrowed from Ramos and Van de gaer (2016), who remark that if we retain the Roemerian effort, annihilating inequality within the columns of the matrix implies equalizing the prospects for each type, since by construction the distribution of Roemerian effort is the…”