LEADER 06111nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910454313703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611959746 010 $a1-281-95974-X 010 $a0-8213-7746-9 035 $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(EXLCZ)991000000000721159 100 $a20081009d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMeasuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean$b[electronic resource] /$fRicard Paes de Barros, et al 210 $aWashington DC $cWorld Bank ;$aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 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 OpportunitiesTable 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 DecompositionBox 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 OpportunityBox 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. 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