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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:38:03am WEST
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A11: Gender, Health Disparities, and Social Inequality Location: Room 112 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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Opportunity-sensitive social welfare University of Bristol, United Kingdom We develop a new framework to evaluate income distributions from the perspective of an opportunity-egalitarian planner. This planner faces a costly trade-off between treating people as equals and treating them unequally to equalize opportunities. The resolution of this trade-off depends on the extent of the planner’s inequality-of-opportunity aversion. We use this framework to derive social welfare and inequality measures that are governed by a single parameter capturing the planner's preferences. We bring these measures to the data and analyze inequality of opportunity in the United States. Concretely, we build on the recent literature on intergenerational mobility and study the robustness of its conclusions about time trends and spatial variation in unequal opportunities to assumptions about the planner's preference for equal opportunities. We show that many commonly held conclusions about trends and spatial variation in inequality of opportunity are sensitive to the assumed degree of inequality-of-opportunity aversion.
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