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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okr-10986-274522021-04-23T14:04:42Z Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar ACCESS TO SERVICES ADULT LIFE CLEAN WATER DECOMPOSITION OF INEQUALITY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY GENDER GENDER EQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY COUNTRIES IMMUNIZATION INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION INEQUALITIES OF OPPORTUNITIES INEQUALITIES OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MINORITY OVERALL INEQUALITY POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC POLICIES SANITATION SOCIETY TOTAL INEQUALITY WDR WILL YOUNG CHILDREN 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. 2017-06-28T18:41:25Z 2017-06-28T18:41:25Z 2011-06-27 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/647431468177836870/Inequality-of-opportunities-among-children-how-much-does-gender-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27452 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research |
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ACCESS TO SERVICES ADULT LIFE CLEAN WATER DECOMPOSITION OF INEQUALITY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY GENDER GENDER EQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY COUNTRIES IMMUNIZATION INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION INEQUALITIES OF OPPORTUNITIES INEQUALITIES OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MINORITY OVERALL INEQUALITY POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC POLICIES SANITATION SOCIETY TOTAL INEQUALITY WDR WILL YOUNG CHILDREN |
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ACCESS TO SERVICES ADULT LIFE CLEAN WATER DECOMPOSITION OF INEQUALITY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY GENDER GENDER EQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY HIGH INEQUALITY COUNTRIES IMMUNIZATION INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION INEQUALITIES OF OPPORTUNITIES INEQUALITIES OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MINORITY OVERALL INEQUALITY POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC POLICIES SANITATION SOCIETY TOTAL INEQUALITY WDR WILL YOUNG CHILDREN Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? |
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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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Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar |
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Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar |
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Hoyos, Alejandro |
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Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? |
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Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? |
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Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? |
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Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? |
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Inequality of Opportunities Among Children : How Much Does Gender Matter? |
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inequality of opportunities among children : how much does gender matter? |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/647431468177836870/Inequality-of-opportunities-among-children-how-much-does-gender-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27452 |
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