Resumen de Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity: Principles, measures, and evidence

Xavier Ramos Morilla, Dirk Van de gaer

• We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuringinequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been trans-lated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choicesresearchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis iden-tifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of op-portunity. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of theempirical literature on income inequality of opportunity.