Measurement of inequality of opportunity based on counterfactuals

DOI10.1007/S00355-020-01261-3MaRDI QIDQ826622zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Ramos, Dirk Van de gaer

Publication date 6 January 2021

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2015-388.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

counterfactual outcome distributionsinequality of opportunitymeasurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

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