Measuring racial discrimination
By: Panel on Methods for Assessing Discrimination, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies ; Rebecca M. Blank, Marilyn Dabady, and Constance F. Citro, editors.
Contributors: Blank, Rebecca M.; Dabady, Marilyn.; Citro, Constance F. 1942-; National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Methods for Assessing Discrimination.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Race discrimination -- Research -- Statistical methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Defining race; title: Defining discrimination; title: Theories of discrimination; title: Causal inference and the assessment of racial discrimination; title: Experimental methods for assessing discrimination; title: Statistical analysis of observational data; title: Attitudinal and behavioral indicators of discrimination; title: An illustration of methodological complexity : racial profiling; title: Measurement of race by the U.S. government; title: Cumulative disadvantage and racial discrimination; title: Research : next steps.