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T1 A Kullback-Leibler measure of conditional segregation
A1 Mora, Ricardo
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB In this paper the Kullback-Leibler notion of discrepancy (Kullback and Leibler, 1951) is used to proposea measure of multigroup segregation over a set of organizational units within a multivariate framework.Among the main results of the paper it is established that the Mutual Information index of segregation,M, first proposed by Theil and Finizza (1971), whose ranking has been fully characterized in terms ofseven ordinal axioms by Frankel and Volij (2009), can be decomposed to isolate a term which capturessegregation conditional on any vector of covariates. Furthermore, consistent estimators for M and theterms in its decomposition are proposed, and their asymptotic properties are obtained. The usefulnessof the approach is illustrated by looking at patterns of multiracial segregation across public schools inthe U.S. for the academic years 1989-90 and 2005-06. It is found that most within-cities segregation anda significant part of within-districts segregation is accounted for by county-level income per capita andwages per job, and teachers per pupil at school level.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2010
FD 2010-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9162
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9162
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 16 jul. 2024