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The roots of inequality

Working Paper 2018-455

Abstract

We propose a set of new methods to estimate inequality of opportunity based on conditional inference regression trees. In particular, we illustrate how these methods represent

Authors: Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe, Daniel Gerszon Mahler.

Keywords: Equality of opportunity, machine learning, random forests.
JEL: D31, D63, C38.