Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error

Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error

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 leve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balcazar Salazar, Carlos
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
METHODS
EMPIRICAL APPLICATION
INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
DECOMPOSABLE INEQUALITY MEASURES
EMPIRICAL APPROACHES
TIME
RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS
INCOME
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
AGE
GENDER
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
BRAIN RESEARCH
INEQUALITIES
POLITICAL ECONOMY
RESEARCHERS
EFFECTS
MEAN LOG DEVIATION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
SAMPLES
SIZE
DOWNWARD BIAS
HIGH CORRELATION
SURVEYS
RESEARCH PAPERS
MEASURES
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
SEX
WEIGHT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
LABOR MARKET
THEORY
CHILDREN
CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
DISTRIBUTION OF OUTCOMES
ESTIMATING
CHILD
METHODOLOGIES
EQUALITY
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
CLEAN WATER
INEQUALITY MEASURES
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
ESTIMATES
MEASUREMENT ERROR
POLICY RESEARCH
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
MEASURING INEQUALITY
RESEARCH
SOCIAL ISSUES
COMPENSATION
PRODUCT
UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
TOTAL INEQUALITY
FEMALE
LINEAR REGRESSION
INEQUALITY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24835061/lower-bounds-inequality-opportunity-measurement-error
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22463

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24835061/lower-bounds-inequality-opportunity-measurement-error
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22463

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