How Much Does Sorting Increase Inequality?

Michael Kremer

Working papers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

Abstract: Social commentators from William Julius Wilson to Charles Murray have argued that increased sorting people into internally homogeneous neighborhoods, schools, and marriages is spurring long- run inequality. Calibration of a formal model suggests that these fears are misplaced.

Keywords: ECONOMETRICS; MATHEMATICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; EDUCATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 C10 D60 D63 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 1996
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