On opportunity inequality measurement
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Ok, EA
署名单位：
New York University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0531
DOI：
10.1006/jeth.1997.2336
发表日期：
1997
页码：
300-329
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摘要：
I study the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets on the basis of equality. The analysis begins by developing alternative ways of formulating the notion of equalizing transfers in the context of opportunity distributions. It is readily observed that any such formulation must rely on agents' preferences over individual opportunity sets. and therefore. a theory of opportunity inequality measurement must be conditional upon the social opportunity set ranking one postulates. Unfortunately, the results make it clear that such a theory can be constructed only when one uses the cardinality ordering of Pattanaik and Xu (1990). More precisely put, I show that it is essentially impossible to extend Dalton's transfer principle to the context of opportunity distributions unless one is content with ranking the opportunity sets only on the basis of their cardinalities. (C) 1997 Academic Press.
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