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A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity, 2010, Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Inequality. A recent literature on inequality of opportunity o¤ers quantitative tools for comparisons and measurement based on stochastic dominance criteria and traditional inequality indices. In this paper I suggest an additional way of assessing inequality of opportunity and operationalizing Roemer's (1998) notion of equality of opportunity with two indices of dissimilarity across distributions. The indices are based on a traditional homogeneity test of multinomial distributions and are similar to the square coe¢ cient of variation (Reardon and Firebaugh, 2002). Their properties are studied, as well as their usefulness and limitations in applications when both circumstances and advan-tages/outcomes are multidimensional. An empirical application measures changes in inequality of opportunity from an old to a young cohort in Peru. The importance of assessing the sensitivity of the results to group de…nitions and group proportions is highlighted. A ‡ourishing literature on robustness in multidimensional welfare and poverty comparisons has aroused the interest on multidimensional stochastic dominance. Considering the widespread use of discrete variables in composite indicators, I derive the analogue dominance conditions of Atkinson and Bourguignon (1982) for ordered, discrete variables. The paper shows that, besides the extensions to these conditions produced by Crawford (2005) for continuous variables, mixed-order-of-dominance conditions can be derived; i.e. the same way Duclos et al. (2006) derive mixed-order conditions for poverty functions. I then show how to test these conditions for discrete variables with a particular extension of the non-parametric test by Anderson (1996) to multiple dimensions. For the practical implementation of the test I propose the use of vectors and matrices of positions in order to handle multivariate, multinomial distributions. An empirical application to multidimensional wellbeing in Peru illustrates these tests. Comparing economic mobility with an heterogeneity index: an application to education in Peru, 2010, Revised and Resubmitted to the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. The literature on intergenerational transmission of wellbeing has largerly been concerned for inequality of opportunity and the persistence of low leves of wellbeing among certain social groups. A comparative strand of this literature compares indicators of these transmission mechanisms, i.e. mobility regimes, across societies, regions or time. In this paper I contribute to this literature by suggesting a complementary way of comparing mobility regimes using indices of heterogeneity of transition matrices, in turn based on adaptations of indices from the segregation literature. This paper's indices do …