Explaining the disparity in placement instability among African-American and white children in child welfare: A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-125

  Foster, E Michael ^a   Hillemeier, Marianne M ^b   Bai, Yu ^c  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodology; Racial differences; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649935650     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.08.021     Document Type: Article

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