Poverty and Discrimination

by Kevin Lang

Book Overview

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.

Using rigorous statistical analysis and economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691119546
• ISBN13: 9780691119540
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.3"