Essays on equality of opportunity (Essais sur l'égalité des chances)

Diplôme Thèse Essays on equality of opportunity (Essais sur l'égalité des chances) eng 2020-10-21 author Javadekar Sayli Sharad 842196 director Krishnakumar Jaya 26462 director De Giorgi Giacomo 860600 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:145536 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1455362 GSEM 85 This thesis focuses on the inequality of opportunity from a unidimensional and a multidimensional perspective. In the former, we study how a policy influences the inequalities created due to a particular circumstance. Particularly, we look at how a conditional cash transfer program influences inequality caused due to gender in India. In the second part of this thesis, we have one project that combines different existing theoretical frameworks for studying multidimensional inequality and applies it in a practical context. Particularly, this paper aims to estimate the level and change of inequality of opportunity in the employment domain using a multidimensional framework. The last project proposes a theoretical inequality of opportunity measure building on Yalonetzky's (2012) work called the Kullback-Leibler divergence index. This index is able to satisfy the property of dimensional decomposability, such that the Kullback-Leibler divergence measure of inequality of opportunity for a multidimensional outcome can be expressed as a function of Kullback-Leibler divergence measure of inequality of opportunity for each dimension plus a measure of association between dimensions. Cash transfer Sex selection Inequality of opportunity Multidimensionality Dewey 330/650 9 Faculté d'économie et de management S false 7bec8a43-2862-43c6-bb4f-bbd3d0564ad3 Thesis Public JAVADEKAR_Sayli_these.pdf 943068 application/pdf openAccess Faculté d'économie et de management

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