U-Shaped Trend in Various Dimensions of Inequality in the USA
摘要
Instead of jumping to an analysis of sorting in the seven numerical examples of Chap. 2 or in any other setting, we first clarify what qualitative trend in sorting is plausible with respect to the USA over the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While Chap. 4 will focus on the trend in racial segmentation, this chapter focuses on educational segmentation.