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Lower and Upper Bounds of Inequality of Opportunity in Emerging Economies
Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal that concerns politicians and the larger public alike. In spite of its wide acceptance, current estimation approaches in the literature suffer from severe data restrictions that lead to biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These shortcomings are particularly pronounced for emerging economies in which comprehensive household survey data often is unavailable. In this paper, we address these issues by estimating lower and upper bounds of inequality of opportunity for a set of emerging economies. Thereby, we address recent critiques that worry about the prevalence of lower bound estimates and the ensuing scope for downplaying the normative significance of inequality.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 301
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- Subject
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Equality of opportunity
inequality
emerging economies
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hufe, Paul
Peichl, Andreas
Weishaar, Daniel
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Veröffentlichung
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
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Munich
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hufe, Paul
- Peichl, Andreas
- Weishaar, Daniel
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Time of origin
- 2019
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