Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter?
Authors apply a decomposition method to a measure of inequality of opportunities among children (the human opportunity index) to examine the question of how much does gender of a child contribute to inequality in access to critical services that sh...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/647431468177836870/Inequality-of-opportunities-among-children-how-much-does-gender-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27452 |
| Summary: | Authors apply a decomposition method to
a measure of inequality of opportunities among children (the
human opportunity index) to examine the question of how much
does gender of a child contribute to inequality in access to
critical services that should be available as basic minimum
opportunities to all children. Authors use a database of 47
countries for which Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data
is available during 2003-2010, four indicators for
opportunities and a limited set of circumstances or
characteristics of the child. On the average and for most
countries, the contribution of gender of the child to
inequality of opportunity in two measures of school
attendance and immunization tends to be low and much below
the contribution of household factors such as economic
status and urban/rural location. In a few countries,
however, gender still plays a more substantial role in
influencing a child's access to a particular service.
Preliminary evidence also suggests that inequalities and
contributions of gender to inequality across opportunities
are correlated, particularly for opportunities in the same sector. |
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