The distinction between effort and other factors, such as family background, matters for correcting policies normative reasons when we appeal to inequality of opportunity. We take advantage a purposefully designed survey on secondary schools in rural Bangladesh offer comprehensive view the importance overall measuring inequalities opportunity education. analysis comprises decomposition exercise...

Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literature that has operationalized concepts in the inequality of opportunity theory (including Roemer’s) and construct t...

Decentralizing Equality of Opportunity and Issues Concerning the Equality of Educational Opportunity Caterina Calsamiglia 2005 This dissertation explores issues concerning local versus global equality of opportunity, the presence of inequality for education attainment and the optimality of policies addressing such problems. The literature distinguishes between two different approaches to distri...

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A large body of literature documents cross-national variation in the level inequality educational opportunity (IEO) among children from different social backgrounds. By contrast, relatively little attention has been given to extent which IEO varies within counties and across regions. On basis data European Social Survey, authors map regions Europe show that substantially counties. This visualiz...

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any The University is committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.