Equality of Opportunity

By C. Jennings, W. Mccarthy, R. Undy. 2017

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On the Fairness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse (2020, background): “If individuals from one protected group need to work harder than “similar” ones from another group to achieve the same goal, this violates the concept of equal opportunity, a notion aiming for people to operate on a level playing field (Arneson 2015).”
On the (im)possibility of fairness (2016, background): “Roemer identifies the goal of such choices as ensuring that negative attributes that are due to an individual’s circumstances of birth or to random chance should not be held against them, while individuals should be held accountable for their effort and choices [18].”
Inequalities in home learning and schoolsâ€™ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK (2020, background): “Accordingly, social policies aim to minimize the impact of family background on education, to ensure equal opportunity for all members of society regardless of social or family background (Roemer, 1998; Morgan et al., 2006).”
Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations (2016, unknown): “According to Roemer (1998), equality of opportunity requires that an individual’s economic success depends only on factors under the individual’s control.”
Equality of When (2017, background): “See Sen [34]; Dworkin [13, 14]; Arneson [2]; Cohen [8] and Roemer [30] among others.”
re-The (Im)possibility of Fairness: Different Value Systems Require Different Mechanisms For Fair Decision Making (methodology): “20 In our framework, this translates to a decision of which axiom to choose.”
Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution (2018, background): “There are also related papers on the effects of standard redistributive policies on equality of opportunity, including Peichl et al. (2011) who focus on Europe, and Gelber and Weinzierl (2016) who study optimal policy design when parents can 4See also Gottschalk and Spolaore (2002).”
Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala (2015, methodology): “Sahn and Younger (2006) found that Guatemala had the most unequal distribution of education and health of a sample of six Latin American countries.”
WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2015, unknown): “…the age-adjustment procedures in wealth inequality bear resemblance to the measures of (in-)equality of opportunity that attempt to disentangle “fair” and “unfair” inequalities attributable to effort, luck or individual a priori circumstances (Almås et al. 2011, Roemer and Trannoy 2015).”
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017, background): “Meritocracy is premised on the notion that all individuals should have equal opportunity and that preferential treatment of individuals on criteria deemed to be “morally irrelevant” (Roemer 1998)—such as gender, ethnicity, or kinship—is unjustifiable.”
Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes (2017, background): “The technical deﬁnition of similarity between individuals, proposed by Dwork et al. [20], resembles partly the notion of strict equality of opportunity proposed by the political scientist John Roemer [54,55].”
Impartial Predictive Modeling: Ensuring Fairness in Arbitrary Models (2016, background): “See Arneson (2015) for a more detailed discussion.”