Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France

By A. Lefranc, Nicolas Pistolesi, Alain Trannoy. 2009

339 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. John E. Roemer
2. V. Peragine
3. Gaston Yalonetzky
4. Gustavo A. Marrero
5. Alain Trannoy
6. F. Waltenberg
7. Luis F. Gamboa
8. Marc Fleurbaey

In General Decision Sciences

1. John E. Roemer
2. Marc Fleurbaey
3. V. Peragine
4. Gustavo A. Marrero
5. Alain Trannoy
6. Xavier Ramos

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Gaston Yalonetzky
2. Alain Trannoy
3. John E. Roemer
4. Gustavo A. Marrero
5. V. Peragine
6. Marc Fleurbaey
7. F. Waltenberg
8. Luis F. Gamboa

Citations in the corpus

• Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence (2012, background): “Xavier Ramos acknowledges financial support of projects ECO2010-21668-C03-02 (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología), 2009SGR307 and XREPP (Direcció General de Recerca).”
• Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey (2010, neutral): “However, see Lefranc et al. (2009) for an illuminating discussion of luck and inequality of opportunity.”
• Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Latin America: Evidence (2011, background): “Third, by 1Among which: Bourgignon et al. (2007), Dardanoni et al. (2005), Ferreira and Gignoux (2008), Lefranc et al (2009), Barros et al. (2009), Checchi and Peragine (2010) proceeding that way, we are able to calculate incremental contributions of each set of circumstances when it is included as…”
• Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “Both papers adopt the stochastic dominance testable conditions proposed by Lefranc, Pistolesi, and Trannoy (2009) to identify the presence of inequality of opportunity in the data.”
• A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity (2010, background): “As Lefranc et al. (2009) explain, the ranking of societies following a second-order dominance criterion may disagree with that based on the notion that equality of opportunity is only achieved under circumstance neutralization, which is a more general version of Roemer's literalist de…nition, and…”
• Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity (2013, methodology): “This is the approach proposed, in different frameworks, by Van de gaer (1993) and Kranich (1996), and used in empirical studies, among others, by Bourguignon et al. (2007a), Ferreira and Gignoux (2011), Lefranc et al. (2009), Peragine and Serlenga (2008) and World Bank (2006).”
• Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth (2013, background): “6 Though not considered in this paper, another possible source of inequality is luck (Lefranc et al., 2009).”