Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies

Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal distributive justice. In spite its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward upward biased estimates inequality opportunity. These shortcomings may be particularly pronounced for emerging economies in which comprehensive household survey sufficient sample size often unavailable. this paper, we assess the extent bias a set twelve economies. Our findings suggest strongly these countries. To contrary, there little scope bias. By bounding above, address recent critiques worry about prevalence ensuing possibility downplay significance inequality.