Inequality of Economic Opportunity in Turkey : An Assessment Using Asset Indicators and Women's Background Variables
Using information on asset ownership, housing quality, and access to services to construct an indicator of household wealth, the author estimates the share of inequality among prime-age Turkish women that can be attributed to unequal opportunities....
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Ankara
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/472651468318532708/Inequality-of-economic-opportunity-in-Turkey-an-assessment-using-asset-indicators-and-womens-background-variables http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27837 |
| Summary: | Using information on asset ownership,
housing quality, and access to services to construct an
indicator of household wealth, the author estimates the
share of inequality among prime-age Turkish women that can
be attributed to unequal opportunities. Both parametric and
non-parametric estimation methods are used, and robustness
to some sample redefinitions is verified. The author find
that at least one-third (one-fourth) of overall wealth
(imputed consumption) inequality in Turkey is associated
with morally irrelevant, pre-determined circumstances. The
circumstances that account for the largest share of the
variance are rural or urban birth area and father's
education. Controlling for rural birth, parents'
education, language spoken at home, and number of siblings,
a three-way regional breakdown of birthplace is not an
important predictor of wealth. An opportunity deprivation
profile reveals that more than two thirds of the most
deprived group in Turkey consists of women born in the rural
areas of the Eastern region, from mothers with no formal education. |
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