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Title: Indices of Informational Association and Analysis of Complex Socio-Economic Systems

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This paper is motivated by a distinctive appreciation of the difficulties posed by quantitative observational inquiry into complex social and economic systems. It develops ordinary and piecewise indices of joint and incremental informational association that enable robust approaches to a common problem in social inquiry: grappling with associations between a quantity of interest and two distinct sets of co-variates taking values over large numbers of individuals. The distinct analytical usefulness of these indices is illustrated with their application to inquiry into the systemic economic effects of patterns of discrimination by social identity in the U.S. economy.

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Authors: dos Santos, Paulo L; Wiener, Noé

Periodical (Full): Entropy

Issue: 4

Volume: 21

Pages: 1-20

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Methodology and Data Collection, Race and Ethnicity

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