Measuring Inequality of Opportunity with Imperfect Data: the case of Turkey
Article dans une revue: 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 (DHS) and an ancillary household expenditure survey are available. One method relies only on the DHS, and constructs a wealth index as a measure of economic advantage. The alternative method imputes consumption from the ancillary survey into the DHS. In both cases, we compute a lower bound estimator of the share of (ex-ante) inequality of opportunity in total inequality. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are calculated for each method, 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% (31%) of overall inequality in imputed consumption (the wealth index).
Auteur(s)
Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux, Meltem Aran
Revue
- Journal of Economic Inequality
Date de publication
- 2011
Mots-clés JEL
Mots-clés
- Inequality of opportunity
- Wealth index
- Imputed consumption
- Turkey
Pages
- 651-680
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 9