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Standardization and Component Analysis
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This paper reviews various procedures of standardization and component analysis which utilize vector or matrix multiplication or are based on regression analysis and Michelson's relatively unknown approach to multiple component analysis is presented.Abstract:
This paper reviews various procedures of standardization and component analysis which utilize vector or matrix multiplication or are based on regression analysis. Substantive examples using these t...read more
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Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor
TL;DR: The authors found that the number of hours of domestic labor has continued to decline steadily and predictably since 1965, mainly due to dramatic declines among women, who have cut their housework hours almost in half since the 1960s.
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On the Decomposition of Wage Differentials
TL;DR: The often-used method for decomposing wage differentials into human capital and discrimination components is reformulated so that both t he disadvantage or "cost," discrimination it imposes on a black or minority wage earner and the advantage, or "benefit," it bestows on a white or majority worker can be estimated.
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Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap
TL;DR: This paper examined the long-term educational consequences of summer learning differences by family socioeconomic level using data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study youth panel, and decompose achievement scores at the start of high school into their developmental precursors, back to the time of school entry in 1st grade.
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Decomposing Differences between Groups: A Cautionary Note on Measuring Discrimination
F. L. Jones,Jonathan Kelley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors illustrates different approaches and draws attention to the conditions under which two, three, or four components of the income gap between groups can be usefully distinguished, and the two central issues are which standard one uses to evaluate endowment differences between groups, and whether the scales used to operationalize underlying concepts have arbitrary zero points or not.
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Trends in Antiblack Prejudice, 1972-1984: Region and Cohort Effects.
Glenn Firebaugh,Kenneth E. Davis +1 more
TL;DR: The 1972-84 trend in antiblack prejudice in the United States is decomposed with the use of a better method for isolating the cohort replacement component of a trend as discussed by the authors.
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Components of a Difference Between Two Rates
TL;DR: The authors of this paper as discussed by the authors are indebted to Philip M. Hauser, Donald J. Bogue, O. Dudley Duncan, Beverly Duncan and J. J. Feldman for a careful reading of the paper and many suggestive comments and criticisms.