When measuring inequality of opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that the researcher estimates a lower bound of the true level of inequality of opportunity. By using data drawn from 27 Demographic Household Surveys (circa 2008), it is found that lower bound estimates can have substantial measurement error, and that measurement error can vary considerably across countries. As a consequence, lower bound estimates of inequality of opportunity can demand too little redistribution to equalize inequalities due to circumstances and can make the “traditional” cross-country comparisons misleading.
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تاريخ الوثيقة
2015/07/28
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نوع الوثيقة
ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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رقم التقرير
WPS7379
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مجلد رقم
1
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1
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تاريخ الإفصاح
2015/07/28
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حالة الافصاح
Disclosed
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اسم الوثيقة
Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error
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كلمة أساسية
measurement error;inequality of opportunity;access to medical service;decomposable inequality measures;missing value;cross-country comparison;labor market outcome;measurement of inequality;
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