We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of
opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures …

Prompted by new data and a renewed concern about equality of opportunity, the study of
intergenerational mobility has flourished in Latin America in the past decade. Although …

My focus is on the degree to which increasing inequality in the high-income countries,
particularly in the United States, is likely to limit economic mobility for the next generation of …

During the last third of the twentieth century, political philosophers actively debated about
the content of distributive justice; the ruling ethical view of utilitarianism was challenged by …

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The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political
philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and …

What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

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 …

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 …