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    Acting White: A critical review

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    Authors
    Sohn, Kitae
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Sohn, K. 2011. Acting White: A critical review. Urban Review. 43 (2): pp. 217-234.
    Source Title
    Urban Review
    DOI
    10.1007/s11256-010-0158-6
    ISSN
    0042-0972
    School
    Department of Economics & Property
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51779
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The hypothesis of acting White has been heatedly debated and influential over the last 20 years or so in explaining the Black-White test score gap. Recently, economists have joined the debate and started providing new theoretical and empirical analyses of the phenomenon. This paper critically reviews the arguments that have been advanced to support and refute the hypothesis. This review particularly covers the analyses in economics because the economic analyses are relatively new and usually neglected in other disciplines. Also, nationally representative data are emphasized, whenever possible, to improve the generalizability of the arguments. This review concludes that although the analyses in both noneconomics and economics are thought-provoking and compelling in some respect, a substantial body of empirical evidence is inconsistent with the assumptions of and results from the analyses. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.

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