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Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals
The theoretical literature on inequality of opportunity formulates basic properties that measures of inequality of opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of opportunity require the construction of counterfactual outcome distributions through statistical methods. We show that, when standard parametric procedures are used to construct the counterfactuals, the specification used determines whether the resulting measures of inequality of opportunity satisfy the basic properties.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9582
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- Subject
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counterfactuals
inequality measurement
opportunities
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Van de gaer, Dirk
Ramos, Xavi
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
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- Van de gaer, Dirk
- Ramos, Xavi
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015
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