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Equality of Opportunity

A.F. Heath
- pp 4722-4724
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The authors explored the concept of equality of opportunity, particularly as it has been frequently used in the sociology of education, and used it as an explanatory concept when discussing class differences in access to privileged educational institutions.
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This article explores the concept of equality of opportunity, particularly as it has been frequently used in the sociology of education. As well as equality being a normative ideal, inequality of opportunity has also often been used as an explanatory concept, e.g., when discussing class differences in access to privileged educational institutions.

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An Evaluation of Local Government and SURE-P Implementation Challenges on Rural Community Development: A Case of Selected Local Government in Niger State, Nigeria

TL;DR: In this paper, the challenges of local government and SURE-P implementation on rural community development in the selected local government in Niger, Nigeria were examined, and it was recommended that the need for thorough community's needs identification, community participation, and adequate funding with a holistic process devoid of political interference as a viable mechanism for curbing rural development challenges.
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Do Tunisian Children Have an Equal Chance to Access to School 8 Years After Revolution

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of inequality of opportunity when a number of circumstances beyond individual's control, such as family background, gender, and place of birth, can affect the access to basic education among Tunisian children was studied.
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Inequalities of Opportunities in Health and Natural Reward: a European Perspective

TL;DR: The Retrospective Survey of SHARELIFE focusing on life histories of European people aged 50 and over is used to assess whether the way the correlation between effort towards health and circumstances empirically matters for the magnitude of inequalities of opportunities.
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Adverse childhood experiences and risk behaviours later in life: Evidence from SHARE countries.

TL;DR: A significant positive effect of exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the probability of unhealthy lifestyles as well as on the insurgency of chronic diseases and disabilities in the long run is highlighted.
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Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a reference-dependent theory of consumer choice, which explains such effects by a deformation of indifference curves about the reference point, in which losses and disadvantages have greater impact on preferences than gains and advantages.
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What Is the Point of Equality

Elizabeth Anderson
- 01 Jan 1999 - 
TL;DR: The authors argues that the problems stem from a flawed understanding of the point of equality and argues that in focusing on correcting a supposed cosmic injustice, egalitarian writing has lost sight of the distinctively political aims of egalitarianism.
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On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice

Gerald A. Cohen
- 01 Jul 1989 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the Tanner Lecture of 1979 called "Equality of What?" Amartya Sen asked what aspects of a person's condition should count in a fundamental way for egalitarians, and not merely as cause of or evidence of or proxy for what they regard as fundamental.
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What is Equality? Part 2: Equality of Resources

TL;DR: This article argued that an equal division of resources presupposes an economic market of some form, mainly as an analytical device but also, to a certain extent, as an actual political institution.