Documents & Reports
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The roots of inequality : estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees (English)
This paper proposes a set of new methods to estimate inequality of opportunity based on conditional inference regression trees. It illustrates how these methods represent a substantial improvement over...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8349 Document Date: February 20, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brunori,Paolo,Hufe,Paul,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon
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Inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)
In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth...
Report No.: WPS7782 Document Date: August 4, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brunori,Paolo,Palmisano,Flaviana,Peragine,Vito
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The World Bank economic review 28 (2) (English)
This paper is organized in following headings: economic development as opportunity equalization; the measurement of educational inequality: achievement and opportunity; economic growth and equality of...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113049 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Roemer,John E.,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Gignoux,Jérémie,Peragine,Vito,Palmisano,Flaviana,Brunori,Paolo,Van de gaer,Dirk,Vandenbossche,Joost,Figueroa,José Luis,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Shemyakina,Olga N.,Justino,Patricia,Leone,Marinella,Salardi,Paola,Valente,Christine,Verwimp,Philip,Van Bavel,Jan