Fair Inequality
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If differences in market earnings between members of a population were hypothetically distributed identically to the observed differences among same sex siblings, how much inequality would remain, as measured by a “fair” Gini coefficient? For the 14 high and middle-income countries in our data set average earnings differences between same sex siblings are 77 percent of expected earnings differences between randomly drawn pairs from the entire population, with little difference in this statistic across countries (a range of 80 - 83 percent). We also present data on and characterize the properties of this new statistic and three other measures of gender and parental advantage.
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