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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Sociol Rev. 2016 Oct 27;81(6):1276–1304. doi: 10.1177/0003122416673029

Table 3.

Decomposition of White-Black Difference in Neighborhood Average Family Income, by Age: Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1971-2011

Age Observed
Difference		 Predicted Difference
Assuming Equal Intercepts		 Percent of Observed
Difference Attributable to
Difference in Intercepts		 Percent of Observed
Difference Attributable
to Difference in
Trajectories
20 12.98 1.37 89.46% 10.54%
30 18.71 7.08 62.14% 37.86%
40 22.50 10.89 51.64% 48.36%
50 24.36 12.77 47.58% 52.42%