and Public Policy -- provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …

, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the … Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin … for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge …

inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the … Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin … for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity – driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …