Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey

Francisco Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux and Meltem Aran ()

No 5204, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data limitations. This paper proposes two alternative approaches to circumventing the missing data problems in countries where a demographic and health survey and an ancillary household expenditure survey are available. One method relies only on the demographic and health survey, and constructs a wealth index as a measure of economic advantage. The alternative method imputes consumption from the ancillary survey into the demographic and health survey. In both cases, the between-type share of overall inequality is computed as a lower bound estimator of inequality of opportunity. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are calculated for both methods, and the parametric approach is shown to yield preferable lower-bound measures. In an application to the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent (31 percent) of overall inequality in imputed consumption (the wealth index).

Keywords: Inequality; Economic Theory&Research; Population Policies; Rural Poverty Reduction; Equity and Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02-01
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