Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/231648 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung No. 93
Publisher: 
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München, München
Abstract: 
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological sex, race, and the socio-economic status of one's parents. On the other hand, if individual outcomes were the result of effort, proponents of an equal-opportunity ethic would accept outcome differences across individuals as fair.
Subjects: 
Inequality
Equality of Opportunity
Poverty
Fairness
Measurement
Machine Learning
Random Forests
Family Decision-Making
Gender Wage Gap
Skill Formation
JEL: 
C38
D31
D63
I32
J13
J16
J22
J24
ISBN: 
978-3-95942-092-1
Document Type: 
Research Report

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