Ricerc@Sapienza

The aim of this project is to empirically investigate the relationship between equality of opportunity and subjective well-being. Differently form the only previous contribution on this topic, this project will employ panel data and individual information of inequality of opportunity from the SHIW database for Italy, BHPS for the UK, SOEP for Germany and PSID for the US. We use the concept of opportunity gap proposed by Fleurbaey and Schokkaert (2009) and recently extended by Moramarco, Palmisano & Peragine (2020). According to the latter article, the opportunity gap methodology is performed in three steps. The use of disaggregated information on inequality of opportunity, that is, equality of opportunity measured at the individual level, allows to make use of panel data techniques which are better able to identify the relationship between equality of opportunity and subjective well-being.