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Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarismA common claim in the policy discourse is that a government wishing to achieve equality of opportunity should use public provision of education for equalisation of opportunities rather than income taxation, which only equalizes incomes...
Educational subsidies Equality of opportunity Income taxBook Chapter
Educational mobility in the developing worldFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Educational mobility Developing countries Educational expansionBook Chapter
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Intergenerational Mobility Equality of opportunity EducationWorking Paper
Measuring multidimensional inequality of opportunityThis paper develops a normative approach to the measurement of ex-ante inequality of opportunity in a multidimensional setting—that is, when the individual outcome is represented by a multidimensional variable...
Equality of opportunity Economic inequality Multidimensional welfareWorking Paper
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityThe United States and China are the world’s largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world’s economic output...
Intergenerational Mobility Equality of opportunity EducationWorking Paper
Educational mobility in developing countriesThis paper reviews the small but growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility in the developing world...
Educational mobility Developing countries Educational expansionWorking Paper
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarismHow does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when the government’s objective is conventional welfarist compared to when the objective is the non-welfarist one of equality of o...
Educational subsidies Equality of opportunity Income taxProject
Social mobility in the Global South – concepts, measures, and determinants
Theme: Transforming societies
Social mobility intergenerational inequality Equality of opportunity