@lawnerdbarak @Noahpinion @mattyglesias This is important. In fact, it is possible to show that social processes generating outcomes like individual incomes give members of different social-identity groups different scopes for differentiation by characteri
"By the content of their character? Discrimination, social identity, and observed distributions of income" in The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (2019) https://t.co/HA4XzdQaNW
@LipstickEcon @JustinWolfers Information Theory helps avoid this flip. It gives us ways to think about & measure the overall influence gender, race &c exert on incomes--including through their influence over covariates, and over how those covariate
@Adam_Hayes_1 Absolutely... https://t.co/RsADkoYblo