This paper discusses a research agenda that arises from unanswered questions and
unresolved issues considered in the World Bank's World Development Report 2006: Equity …

Building on the existing literature, this paper constructs a simple scalar measure of
inequality of opportunity and applies it to six Latin American countries. The measure—which …

Two related measures of educational inequality are proposed: one for educational
achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or …

This paper proposes a measure of the contribution of unequal opportunities to earnings
inequality. Drawing on the distinction between “circumstance” and “effort” variables in John …

In this paper we provide a methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to
decompose overall income inequality in an “ethically offensive” and an “ethically …

We study the difference between the ex post and ex ante perspectives in equality of
opportunity. We show that the well documented conflicts between compensation and reward …

We offer a model of equality of opportunity that encompasses different conceptions
expressed in the public and philosophical debates. In addition to circumstances whose …

We evaluate how far away six Latin American countries stand from a normative goal of
equality of opportunity for educational achievement in PISA 2006–2009. We work with …

In this paper, we investigate whether income inequality negatively affects voter turnout.
Despite some progress, the answer to this question is still debated due to methodological …

This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning
the period 1983–2004 using National Sample Surveys. We build on recent developments in …