We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of
opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures …

During the last third of the twentieth century, political philosophers actively debated about
the content of distributive justice; the ruling ethical view of utilitarianism was challenged by …

The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political
philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and …

Equality of opportunity is a widely accepted principle of distributive justice and it is the
leading idea of most political platforms in several countries. According to this principle, a …

We study the difference between the ex post and ex ante perspectives in equality of
opportunity. We show that the well documented conflicts between compensation and reward …

We discuss the conceptual foundations of measuring (in) equity in health and health care.
After an overview of the recent developments in the measurement of socioeconomic …

The way to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort is a central, yet largely
neglected issue in the applied literature on inequality of opportunity. This paper adopts three …

(1) Background: We aim to measure the urban-rural inequality of opportunity in healthcare in
China based on the theory of Equality of Opportunity (EOp).(2) Methods: Following the …

Background Inappropriate visits to emergency departments (EDs) could represent from 20%
to 40% of all visits. Inappropriate use is a burden on healthcare costs and increases the risk …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality
as problematic per se but that they take into account the fairness or unfairness of the …