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Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil: A Corrigendum

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco; Menéndez, Marta (2013), Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil: A Corrigendum, The Review of Income and Wealth, 59, 3, p. 551-555. 10.1111/roiw.12045

Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Date
2013-09
Journal name
The Review of Income and Wealth
Volume
59
Number
3
Publisher
Wiley
Pages
551-555
Publication identifier
10.1111/roiw.12045
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Author(s)
Bourguignon, François

Ferreira, Francisco
World Bank
Menéndez, Marta
Abstract (EN)
This note acknowledges and corrects a programming error in our paper “Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil” (Review of Income and Wealth, 53(4), 585–618, 2007). Once the error is corrected, our bounds approach to the identification of individual model parameters in the presence of omitted variable biases is much less useful than indicated in the original paper. In the specific context of the measurement of inequality of opportunity, this implies that the decomposition of overall inequality of opportunity into direct and indirect effects is not reliable. However, the parametric approach introduced in our paper remains useful for obtaining a lower-bound estimate of overall ex-ante inequality of opportunity, as proposed by Ferreira and Gignoux (2011).
Subjects / Keywords
Brazil; inequality of opportunities; omitted variable bias
JEL
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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