Accounting for the Black–White Wealth Gap
Authors:
- Robert BarskyRBRobert Barsky
- John BoundJBJohn Bound
- Kerwin Ko' CharlesKCKerwin Ko' Charles
- Joseph P LuptonJLJoseph P Lupton
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 97 (459) , 663-673
Abstract
Many applications involve a decomposition of the mean intergroup difference in a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of one or more explanatory variables...Keywords
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