Marta Menéndez

TL;DR: The World Development Report 2006 as discussed by the authors analyzes the relationship between equity and development and discusses the two channels of impact (the effects of unequal opportunities when markets are imperfect, and the consequences of inequity for the quality of institutions a society develops) as well as intrinsic motives.

TL;DR: In this article, a measure of the contribution of unequal opportunities to earnings inequality is proposed, which is based on the distinction between "circumstance" and "effort" variables in John Roemer's work on equality of opportunity.

TL;DR: This article used a micro-econometric technique to simulate what the distribution of outcomes would look like if 'circumstances' were the same for everybody, and found that observed circumstances are a major source of outcome inequality in Brazil, probably more so than in other countries for which information is available.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the dynamics of household per capita incomes using longitudinal data from Indonesia, South Africa, Spain and Venezuela and find that initial income and job changes of the head are consistently the most important variables in accounting for income changes, overall and for initially poor households.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the long-term effects on individual economic outcomes of a set of earthquakes that occurred in rural Indonesia since 1985, using longitudinal individual-level data from large-scale household surveys, together with precise measures of local ground tremors obtained from a US Geological Survey database.