LEADER 06401oam 22008895 450 001 9910782864103321 005 20230822205126.0 010 $a9786611959746 010 $a1-281-95974-X 010 $a0-8213-7746-9 024 7 $a10.1596/978-0-8213-7745-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721159 035 $a(EBL)459449 035 $a(OCoLC)302102335 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302826 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12083135 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302826 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274404 035 $a(PQKB)10312486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC459449 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL459449 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10268624 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195974 035 $a(The World Bank)262143055 035 $a(The World Bank)ocn262143055 035 $a(US-djbf)15481321 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721159 100 $a20081009d2009 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMeasuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean /$fRicardo Paes de Barros ... [and others] 210 1$aWashington DC :$cWorld Bank ;$aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan ;$d[2009] 210 4$dcopyright 2009. 215 $axxiii, 195 pages $cillustrations ;$d23 cm 225 1 $aLatin American development forum series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8213-7747-7 311 $a0-8213-7745-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; OVERVIEW; Figure 1 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 2 Measuring Inequality of Opportunity; Figure 3 Human Opportunity Indexes for Selected Educational and Housing Indicators; Table 1 Summary Human Opportunity Index (HOI), circa 2005; Figure 4 Changes in Human Opportunity Indexes in Education and Housing Conditions, 1995-2005; Figure 5 Human Opportunity Index and Coverage Rate: Chile, 2006; Figure 6 Human Opportunity Index: Completion of Sixth Grade on Time in Brazil by State, 2005 327 $aTable 2 Income and Opportunities Table 3 Share of Inequality of Economic Opportunity; Table 4 What Circumstances Characterize the Most Economically Disadvantaged Groups?; Table 5 What Characterizes Students in the Bottom 10 Percent of Reading Performance Distribution?; 1 INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT CAN BE MEASURED, AND WHY IT MATTERS; Figure 1.1 Simulated Probability of Completing Sixth Grade on Time, circa 2005; Figure 1.2 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 1.3 Should We Have More or Less Inequality? Responses from the World Values Survey 327 $aFigure 1.4 Outcome Inequality Decomposition Box 1.1 Meritocracy and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.2 Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.3 Latin American Contributions to the Equality Opportunities Literature; Box 1.4 Social Preference and the "Ultimatum Game"; Box 1.5 Beyond Measurement: The Perspective of Rights; 2 A HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX FOR CHILDREN; Table 2.1 Countries, Surveys, and Years; Table 2.2 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Education; Table 2.3 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Housing Conditions 327 $aFigure 2.1 The D-Index: An Index to Measure Inequality of Opportunity Box 2.1 Computing the D-Index Empirically; Table 2.4 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Education; Table 2.5 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Housing Conditions; Table 2.6 Human Opportunity Indexes in Education; Table 2.7 Human Opportunity Indexes in Housing Conditions; Table 2.8 Summary Opportunity Indexes for Education and Housing Conditions; Table 2.9 Human Opportunity Index; Figure 2.2 Changes in the Human Opportunity Index, circa 1995-2005; 3 USES AND POLICY APPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX 327 $aTable 3.1 D-Index for Completing Sixth Grade on Time, by Circumstance, circa 2005Table 3.2 D-Index for Probability of Access to Sanitation, by Circumstance, circa 2005; Table 3.3 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Educational Opportunity; Table 3.4 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Sixth Grade Completion on Time: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country; Box 3.1 Preliminary Evidence from Haiti; Table 3.5 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Opportunity for Housing Conditions 327 $aTable 3.6 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Access to Sanitation: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country 330 $aEquality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. 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