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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 child health in Sudan: Across-region study
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used multilevel modeling techniques to address both aspects of science engagement and science achievement as outcome variables in the context of student background and school characteristics, and found that science teaching strategies which focused on applications or models and hands-on activities frequently enhanced science achievement over and above influences of student backgrounds and other school characteristics.
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No evidence of inequality aversion in the investment game.
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Inequality in old age cognition across the world
TL;DR: Cognitive inequalities in old age are largely determined by earlier educational inequalities as well as gender differential survival rates, and there is evidence that unequal opportunities for education −captured by differences in parental background and gender‐ also have significant effects on inequality of old age cognition.
Essays on Education and Labour Economics
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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.