Gaston Yalonetzky

Biographic Data

ID4263053
NAMEGaston Yalonetzky
GIVEN NAMESGaston
FAMILY NAMEYalonetzky
SIGNATUREYALONETZKY G
AFFILIATIONSLeeds Universtiy, Leeds, UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale

    Open AccessIndranil Dutta, Ricardo Nogales et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2021Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Layers of Inequality: Unequal Opportunities and Skin Color in Mexico

    Open AccessLuis Monroy‐gómez‐franco, Roberto Vélez-Grajales et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2021Cited by: 5References: 3

    We document the contribution of skin color toward quantifying inequality of opportunity over a proxy indicator of wealth. Our Ferreira–Gignoux estimates of inequality of opportunity as a share of total wealth inequality show that once parental wealth is included as a circumstance variable, the share of inequality of opportunity rises above 40%, overall and for every age cohort. By contrast, the contribution of skin tone to total inequality of opp…

  • Measuring educational inequality of opportunity: Pupil’s effort matters

    Open AccessM N Asadullah, Alain Trannoy et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2020Cited by: 6References: 8

    The distinction between effort and other factors, such as family background, matters for correcting policies and normative reasons when we appeal to inequality of opportunity. We take advantage of a purposefully designed survey on secondary schools in rural Bangladesh to offer a comprehensive view of the importance of overall effort when measuring inequalities of opportunity in education. The analysis comprises decomposition exercises of the pred…

  • Inequality and Welfare in Quality of Life Among OECD Countries: Non-parametric Treatment of Ordinal Data

    Open AccessMartyna Kobus, Olga Półchłopek et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2019Cited by: 2References: 44

  • Introduction to Special Section: Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement and Analysis of Female Empowerment and Agency

    Paola Ballón, Gaston Yalonetzky et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2018

    This special issue presents four novel applications of quantitative methods to address measurement and analytical issues in the appraisal of female empowerment and agency. The methods presented comprise mixed methods, dominance analysis and structural equation models. The use of these methods is illustrated with empirical applications in Cambodia, India, Mali, and Turkey

  • The State of Female Autonomy in India: A Stochastic Dominance Approach

    Kausik Chaudhuri, Gaston Yalonetzky et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2018

    The promotion of female autonomy is both intrinsically and instrumentally desirable. We document differences in the distribution of female autonomy in India (using the National Family Health Survey 2005–2006) addressing two methodological challenges: the multidimensional nature of the concept and its frequent measurement with ordinal variables (which are not amenable to direct comparisons of social averages). We tackle these challenges with three…

  • Index of Dissimilarity

    Open AccessGaston Yalonetzky, Gaston Isaias YalonetzkyCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2015

    Dissimilarity indices quantify the differences between conditioned probability distributions of categorical variables. Traditionally they have been used to study social segregation in labor markets, housing, and school districts. Recently they have also been used to measure “horizontal” inequalities—that is, inequalities between groups—and inequality of opportunity concepts. The current methodological literature provides indices for unordered cat…

  • Relative income change and pro-poor growth

    Open AccessMarek Kośny, Gaston Yalonetzky et al.ARTICLEEconomia Politica2015References: 5

    Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of people, taking either the situation of this group in the previous period, or the average change in the population, as reference point. By contrast, we propose a measure of distributional change based on the comparison of a group’s wellbeing standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which…

  • Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States

    Open AccessM N Asadullah, Gaston Yalonetzky et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2011Cited by: 21References: 3