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Measuring School Segregation
Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multi-group school segregation indices: the Atkinson Indices for the class of school districts with a given fixed number of ethnic groups and the Mutual Information Index for the class of all districts. Properties of other school segregation...
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Measuring Segregation
Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2007
axioms are motivated by two criteria. The first is evenness: how much do ethnic groups’ distributions across schools differ …? The second is representativeness: how different are schools’ ethnic distributions from one another? We prove that a unique …
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An Axiomatization of the Multigroup Atkinson Segregation Indices
Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008
segregated when schools in them are subdivided (unless the new schools have the exact same ethnic distribution), and that satisfy …
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