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Lower and upper bound estimates of inequality of opportunity for emerging economies
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Abstract Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These shortcom... mehr
Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These shortcomings may be particularly pronounced for emerging economies in which comprehensive household survey data of sufficient sample size is often unavailable. In this paper, we assess the extent of upward and downward bias in inequality of opportunity estimates for a set of twelve emerging economies. Our findings suggest strongly downward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity in these countries. To the contrary, there is little scope for upward bias. By bounding inequality of opportunity from above, we address recent critiques that worry about the prevalence of downward biased estimates and the ensuing possibility to downplay the normative significance of inequality.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Chancengleichheit; soziale Chance; Ungleichheit; Volkswirtschaft; Privathaushalt; Stichprobe
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
EU-SILC
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 395-427
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Choice and Welfare, 58 (2022) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-021-01362-7
ISSN
1432-217X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)