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Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 217-300). 2015

compensate individuals with disadvantageous circumstances so that outcomes experienced by a population depend only on factors for …

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?

Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017

Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...

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Approaches to inequality of opportunity : principles, measures and evidence

Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - In: Journal of economic surveys 30 (2016) 5, pp. 855-883

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Equality of opportunity

Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - 2013

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Equality of opportunity

Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - 2015

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize …

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize …

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Lower bounds and the linearity assumption in parametric estimations of inequality of opportunity

Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas - 2015

of such estimates. In this paper we argue that neglecting heterogeneity in the influence of circumstances across types as … well as neglecting heterogeneity in type-specific effort distributions are two important sources of the downward bias in … inequality of opportunity measures. Compared to the standard parametric approach of ex ante measurement of inequality of …

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