Equality of opportunity with categorical data

  1. Herrero, Carmen 1
  2. Villar, Antonio 2
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

  2. 2 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

Revista:
Lecturas de Economía

ISSN: 0120-2596,  2323-0622

Año de publicación: 2014

Número: 81

Páginas: 9-30

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.17533/UDEA.LE.N81A1 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Lecturas de Economía

Resumen

This paper refers to some social evaluation problems when equity matters. We propose here a way of assessing the equality of opportunity that is applicable to categorical data. It consists of dividing society into groups with similar characteristics and to measure the dispersion of outcomes within those groups, from the distribution of the population in the different categories. An empirical illustration on the equality of opportunity in education is provided, using the PISA 2012 data on mathematical knowledge regarding the Spanish regions.

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