Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error / Balcazar, Carlos Felipe.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Balcazar, Carlos Felipe

Contributor:

Balcazar, Carlos Felipe

Series:

Policy research working papers.

World Bank e-Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Equity and development.

Gender.

Gender & law.

Inequality.

Inequality of opportunity.

Lower bounds.

Measurement error.

Poverty reduction.

Science and technology development.

Science education.

Scientific research & science parks.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Equity and development.

Gender.

Gender & law.

Inequality.

Inequality of opportunity.

Lower bounds.

Measurement error.

Poverty reduction.

Science and technology development.

Science education.

Scientific research & science parks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (11 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.