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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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

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spelling	okr-10986-224632021-04-23T14:04:09Z Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error Balcazar Salazar, Carlos 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 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 misleading. 2015-08-17T20:01:37Z 2015-08-17T20:01:37Z 2015-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24835061/lower-bounds-inequality-opportunity-measurement-error http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22463 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7379 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	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
spellingShingle	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 Balcazar Salazar, Carlos Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
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description	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 misleading.
format	Working Paper
author	Balcazar Salazar, Carlos
author_facet	Balcazar Salazar, Carlos
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title	Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
title_short	Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
title_full	Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
title_fullStr	Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
title_full_unstemmed	Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
title_sort	lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	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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Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error

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