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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality
TL;DR: This paper showed that whenever the source of inequality is uncorrelated to parent ranks, such as in the cases of gender and birth order, increasing equality leads to a fall in rank mobility as measured by the rank correlation.
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Equality of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps in the Israeli Education System
TL;DR: The negative correlation between the average test scores and the Educational Needs Index (ENI) is about 2.2 times higher in grade 8 than in grade 5 and that children from low index schools are more likely to improve their scores.
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Decomposing inequality 'at work': Cross-country evidence from EU-SILC
Vincenzo Carrieri,Vito Peragine +1 more
TL;DR: This article proposed a structural model to estimate inequality of opportunity (IOp) among workers and distinguish two different sources of inequality: inequality in the labour attachment and the remuneration of each working hour.
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Exploitation: Bridging Social and Distributive Egalitarianism:
TL;DR: Social egalitarians have charged distributive egalitarianism with abandoning the victims of option luck, disrespecting victims of brute luck, and misunderstanding the aim of egalitarian justice.
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Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
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
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
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.