The Policy Significance of Inequality Decompositions
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Economists are now familiar with “between” and “within” group inequality
decompositions, for race, gender, spatial units, etc. But what exactly is the normative
significance of the empirical results produced by these decompositions? This paper raises
some basic questions about policy interpretations of decompositions that are found in the
literature.