For example, our conservative estimates of the unexplained portion of the decompositions, which can be suggestive of historical discrimination, show that approximately 72 percent of the Black-White wealth gap and 53 percent of the household income gap are unexplained. While in the case of the ...
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especially those of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Given the long and troubled history of the United States involving issues of race, the racial identity of an individual has had a powerful impact upon his or her life chances.1I was born white, a social fact that ...
In the USA, consistent with the diminished returns hypothesis, increases in SES do not confer equal advantages to AIANs. Not only did AIANs experience poorer health across all education levels, but the Indigenous gap was largest at the highest levels of education. Although our study did not ex...