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Challenges and opportunities on Islamic inheritance distribution in Indonesia
(Universidad del Zulia, 2019)
Accessibility to opportunities based on public transport gps-monitored data: The case of Santiago, Chile
(2020)
We study buses' accessibility to education, health, and job opportunities in Santiago, Chile. Our approach computes travel times during a week using full real-world GPS data for the 6681 buses of the public transport system. ...
Inequality of opportunity in health and cognitive abilities: the case of Chile
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-10)
This paper studies inequality of opportunity in health in Chile. Following Roemer's ap-
proach to equality of opportunity, we separate the e ect of circumstances and e orts -healthy
behaviors- on self-assessed health. ...
Inequality of Opportunities in the Educational Attainment of Chilean Students.
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
This study measures the contribution of inequality of opportunities on the educational
attainment of Chilean students, captured through the SIMCE test scores. For this, it employs a
recently introduced methodology that ...
Inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil
(2012-04)
In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we construct an opportunity index that modifies the human opportunity index proposed in the literature and ...
Barriers and opportunities for adapting to climate change on the North Coast of São Paulo, Brazil
(2017-08-01)
This paper examines barriers and opportunities for climate change adaptation in an urban coastal setting where adaptation is in its infancy. It draws on a diagnostic framework as a foundation for identifying and organising ...
Inequality of Opportunities and Long Term Earnings Measures: Evidence for Chile
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)
In this paper we assess the sensitivity of measures of inequality of
opportunity to long-term earnings data. We compare indicators using
four and seven year earnings with indicators that use the most
commonly available ...
Desert and Equality of Opportunity
(PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST CIENCIA POLITICA, 2013)
It seems reasonable to claim that inequalities can be deserved or undeserved only if the principle of equality of opportunity has been be previously satisfied. The main purpose of this article is to argue against desert ...