TY - BOOK ID - 134272234 TI - Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error PY - 2015 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Education KW - Equity and development KW - Gender KW - Gender & law KW - Inequality KW - Inequality of opportunity KW - Lower bounds KW - Measurement error KW - Poverty reduction KW - Science and technology development KW - Science education KW - Scientific research & science parks UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134272234 AB - When measuring inequality of opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that the researcher estimates a lower bound of the true level of inequality of opportunity. By using data drawn from 27 Demographic Household Surveys (circa 2008), it is found that lower bound estimates can have substantial measurement error, and that measurement error can vary considerably across countries. As a consequence, lower bound estimates of inequality of opportunity can demand too little redistribution to equalize inequalities due to circumstances and can make the "traditional" cross-country comparisons misleading. ER -