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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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Life chances and class: Estimating inequality of opportunity for children and adolescents in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the degree to which class and socio-economic background influence a child's life chances and their future perspectives was determined by comparing children from lower and upper middle-class households.
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The Long Arc of Fairness: Formalisations and Ethical Discourse
Pola Schwöbel,Peter Remmers +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a dynamic fairness model is proposed that realigns formal fairness metrics with arguments from the ethical discourse and provides a helpful tool to navigate trade-offs between different fairness interventions.
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Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunity in Tanzania
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the structure and dynamics of consumption inequality and inequality of opportunity in Tanzania and revealed moderate and declining levels of consumption inequalities at the national level, but increasing inequalities between geographic regions.
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Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Education by Combining Information on Coverage and Achievement in PISA.
TL;DR: In this article, a composite index of equality of opportunity in education is proposed to measure the distance between countries and the goal of achieving equality of education in education, and rank reversals are observed with respect to orderings based upon a single dimension, such as average scores or dissimilarity in access.
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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.