Racial tax effects must be inferred through proxy data since the IRS publishes none

Evidence

I had to become a detective of sorts, looking for any scrap of information that might help me solve the puzzle. I looked at racial data that would make for good proxies, like household income data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. I dug into published research in other fields, like sociology, political science, and economics. I also learned how crucial history would be in understanding the story I was hoping to tell. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 35

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the methodological triangulation strategy the reader wants to track: census income proxies plus cross-disciplinary research plus history. — connects to: IRS tax statistics are not published by race so proxies are needed — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 76; The IRS does not collect or publish tax statistics by race — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 34; Tax agencies could collect racial data but uniformly choose not to — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 516 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: IRS tax statistics are not published by race so proxies are needed — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 76; The IRS does not collect or publish tax statistics by race — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 34; Tax agencies could collect racial data but uniformly choose not to — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 516 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• IRS tax statistics are not published by race so proxies are needed #expands (0.97) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 76
• The IRS does not collect or publish tax statistics by race #expands (0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 34
• The IRS collected racial data until 2002 but never matched it #complicates (0.82) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 516
• Tax agencies could collect racial data but uniformly choose not to #complicates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 516