%0 Journal Article
%T Desigualdade de oportunidades no Brasil: efeitos diretos e indiretos
%A Figueiredo
%A Erik Alencar de
%A Silva
%A Cleiton Roberto da Fonseca
%A Rego
%A Herbert de Oliveira
%J Economia Aplicada
%D 2012
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S1413-80502012000200002
%X the aim of this study is to measure the inequality of opportunities in brazil. for this purpose, we use the theoretical approach developed by pistoles i (2009) and an empirical strategy based on combining the method of counterfactual generation by chemozhukov, fem¨˘ndez-val e melly (2009). the results indicate that the proportion of inequality of opportunity in total brazilian inequality is 35%.
%K inequality of opportunity
%K quant ile regressions
%K count erf actual method.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-80502012000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en