Does it matter who answers the race question? Racial classification and income inequality in Brazil

Demography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 465-474

  Telles, Edward E ^a   Lim, Nelson ^b  

^a FORD FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; NEGRO; RACE; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAZIL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PREJUDICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032196849     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3004014     Document Type: Article

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