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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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Inequality of opportunity in Europe: Economic and policy facts *
TL;DR: In this paper, the main factors that have influenced inequality of opportunity (IO) in Europe were considered. But the authors did not consider the functioning of the labor market and the tax structure, which do not have significant bearing on IO.
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Genomics and equal opportunity ethics
TL;DR: Examples are considered of how new genetic information may affect the way individual responsibility for choice is assigned and it is argued that genomics may result in relocation of the responsibility cut by providing both new information and new technology.
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Born with a silver spoon : inequality in educational achievement across the world
TL;DR: The authors assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment and find that there are large inequalities in learning outcomes as measured by demonstrated proficiency in PISA test scores in math, reading and science.
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Outcomes, opportunity and development : why unequal opportunities and not outcomes hinder economic development
TL;DR: This paper studied the relationship between inequality of opportunity and development outcomes in a cross-country setting and found that inequality of endowments at the outset of history led to unequal educational opportunities, which in turn affected development outcomes.
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TL;DR: The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) as discussed by the authors is an instrument for measuring inequality of opportunities access to a specific set of goods and services, including education, health care, and infrastructure.
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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.