The dynamics of the evolution of the Black-White test score gap
We apply a quantile version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to estimate the counterfactual distribution of the test scores of Black students. In the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K), we find that the gap initially appears only at the top of the distrib...
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Routledge
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51774 |