Essays on Equality of Opportunity

Paul Hufe

in ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung from ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome dierences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological sex, race, and the socio-economic status of one’s parents. On the other hand, if individual outcomes were the result of eort, proponents of an equal-opportunity ethic would accept outcome dierences across individuals as fair.

Keywords: Inequality; Equality of Opportunity; Poverty; Fairness; Measurement; Machine Learning; Random Forests; Family Decision-Making; Gender Wage Gap; Skill Formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 D31 D63 I32 J13 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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