Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error / Balcazar, Carlos Felipe
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: World Bank E-Library ArchiveVerlag: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (11 p)Andere physische Formen: Erscheint auch als: Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7379Online-Ressourcen: Zusammenfassung: 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 level of inequality of opportunity. By using data drawn from 27 Demographic Household Surveys (circa 2008), it is found that lower bound estimates can have substantial measurement error, and that measurement error can vary considerably across countries. As a consequence, lower bound estimates of inequality of opportunity can demand too little redistribution to equalize inequalities due to circumstances and can make the "traditional" cross-country comparisons misleadingPPN: PPN: 1724865161Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBADieser Titel hat keine Exemplare