Does it matter who answers the race question? Racial classification and income inequality in Brazil
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Duke University Press in Demography
- Vol. 35 (4) , 465-474
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3004014
Abstract
Previous studies ofracial inequality have relied on official statistics that presumably use self-classification of race. Using novel data from a 1995 national survey in Brazil, we find that the...Keywords
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